The Westgard
QC newsletter appeared in my in-box today. I’ve got a degree in maths and
still find it hard going in places, but one article made me think… The ISO
standards insist we must have measurements of the degree of uncertainty for our
analytes, but is rather more vague as to what we do with those figures.
CLIA (Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Amendments) and EFLM (European
Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine) goals have
been set, and the nice people at Westgard have applied their goals to several
Haematology analysers… you can see the paper
by clicking here.
Oh dear…
“The
new era of goals for hematology appears ominous. If the three dominant
benchmarks deliver an unacceptable verdict of a leading hematology instrument,
what are we to conclude? Are the instruments fundamentally flawed, or the goals
themselves?”
I wonder
where this is going to go…
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