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By theory, after you get an out-of-control event, all of those patient specimens that were tested during the run must be repeated. But labs don't really do that.

When you look at the classic Westgard Rules, there's a lesser-known wrinkle in how often some errors are detected.
Review the history of the 1:2s Warning Rule, why it went from rejection to warning, and see why it's now been eliminated from modern Westgard Rules and Westgard Sigma Rules.

For most of laboratory history, how often you ran QC was not a question, it was a regulatory mandate. But the latest QC calculations enable laboratories to determine a completely customized QC frequency. Are laboratories ready?

In celebration of Lab Week 2023, we share some of the question and answer sessions of recent year. And try to get to the question under the question...

More than 2,000 laboratory professionals registered for the Westgard Zoom on Chasing the Mean, a frank discussion of PT, EQA, and peer groups. So many questions raised that couldn't be answered during the time of the call, we saved and answered them here.