tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54848302872070221972024-03-12T17:10:51.811-07:00Making Medical Lab Quality RelevantA discussion site for folks interested in improving the quality of medical laboratories. Most will be the thoughts and vents of a long time player in the medical laboratory quality from many perspectives, complex and basic laboratories, developed and developing countries, research and new knowledge.Quality Dochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223436454713334976noreply@blogger.comBlogger449125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484830287207022197.post-15490661698963135602024-02-05T23:18:00.000-08:002024-02-05T23:18:00.164-08:00795,000 Serious Diagnostic Errors <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Quality Dochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223436454713334976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484830287207022197.post-66526753683936515802023-09-04T22:24:00.000-07:002023-09-04T22:24:00.311-07:00Teaching Points about EQA. <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Quality Dochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223436454713334976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484830287207022197.post-23992572331085321582023-06-02T15:51:00.003-07:002023-06-02T15:51:36.712-07:00Giving Back and Paying Forward - 2023In the sciences, Quality is NOT about Elegance or Specialness or Brilliant
Ideas. Quality, especially in laboratories, is defined by the specifics of
meeting requirements and performance. Quality provides the cornerstone for
confidence through error awareness and prevention for precision, accuracy, and
reproducibility, and relevance. The Quality Tools are essential in medical laboratory Quality Dochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223436454713334976noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484830287207022197.post-23137775460652092712023-04-23T09:17:00.000-07:002023-04-23T09:17:44.524-07:00Human Performance Errors (HPEs) and EQA <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Quality Dochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223436454713334976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484830287207022197.post-44101470968688893052022-10-30T12:26:00.000-07:002022-10-30T12:26:07.300-07:00Understanding the Laboratory Proficiency Testing Cycle - Part 3Understanding the Laboratory Proficiency Testing Cycle (External Quality
Assessment – EQA) This presentation is part 3 of a series highlighting
Proficiency Testing as a Laboratory Quality Partner. This series is put together
by Dr. Michael A Noble BA MD FRCPC, the material founder and now retired chair of
CMPT – Canadian (formerly Clinical) Microbiology Proficiency Testing Quality Dochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223436454713334976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484830287207022197.post-45231409361148227842022-09-23T10:49:00.015-07:002022-09-25T00:47:08.014-07:00The “Guiding Principles” of External Quality Assessment – PT/EQA <!--[if !mso]>
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“young”, soon to be 76. I am not sure when that number will cease to grow. I
have worked as a physician and teacher and leader in the arenas of laboratory
medicine since 1978. I have focused on microbiology, infection control, elder
care, and most recently and most actively in quality teaching, quality assessment and quality
Quality Dochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223436454713334976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484830287207022197.post-90866398666097624022021-08-28T14:56:00.002-07:002021-08-29T17:00:04.099-07:00The Wrights and Wrongs of Vaccination. <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Quality Dochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223436454713334976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484830287207022197.post-26135337644537327232020-11-11T16:08:00.000-08:002020-11-11T16:08:08.590-08:00The Distributed Costs of Poor Laboratory Quality https://cost-impact.netlify.app I have written about Costs of Poor Quality before (see: Tuesday, March 3, 2020CVP - The Coronavirus Vanity Project -or- Sunday, March 6, 2016 Another look at costing Quality-2016 -or- Saturday, June 7, 2014 Taking Charge - Taking Responsibility ) It is a favourite topic of mine. While first introduced by Joseph Juran, it was best defined by Quality Dochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223436454713334976noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484830287207022197.post-60415523771512154532020-09-30T21:16:00.000-07:002020-10-01T23:43:32.710-07:00Unintended Consequences <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Quality Dochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223436454713334976noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484830287207022197.post-75090284616073817312020-07-02T14:25:00.000-07:002020-11-26T06:19:18.415-08:00Training Laboratory Quality Managers for 2021 and beyond
In 2003 two things
happened. In that year the first version
of the standard ISO15189:2003 medical laboratories – particular requirements
for quality and competence was published.
One of the requirements in the new standard was that medical laboratories
were required to have a person in a position referred to as the Laboratory Quality
Manager.
In the same year a newQuality Dochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03223436454713334976noreply@blogger.com6