Basic QC Practices
More than 2,000 laboratory professionals worldwide registered for the Warning on Warning Rules webinar on February 13, 2025. Several hundred more have watched the on-demand recording since. The topic seems to have struck a nerve.
A new IFCC survey of global practices highlights some old problems.
How should we handle positive controls in SARS-COV-2 assays? What's the upside of examining a data set that contains a real error?
A recent publication of large academic medical centers in the USA revealed that 90% of them still set their control limits at 2 standard deviations from the mean, and only 10% use a variation of the "Westgard Rules". Have we really fallen so far?
A new abstract for the IFCC meeting in Istanbul returns to Italy to study the frequency of errors in laboratory processes across the Total Testing Process. Italy was where the study of errors rates really began back in 1997. Has Italy improved since then?