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Lab Quality

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It's time to stop advocating the use of the wrong model in clinical chemistry
*Six Sigma I Some technical comments about Six Sigma in the lab
Six Sigma II A glucose example and its problems
Six Sigma III A dubious Six Sigma claim 
Troponin I – Its Performance Doesn’t Justify Actions
*How to specify and estimate outlier rates
A Comment about GUM
Why Progress in Quality is Slow
Equivalent QC
Equivalent QC II
Should labs run more QC?
Issues with Standard Groups
ISO Terminology - Globally harmonized or gobbledygook
FMEA vs. lab performance goals - there's a big difference
Comments on the FDA Guidance for Waiver Applications
*Fault tree example as an aid to completing a FMEA
*Risk Management  
Publishing in Journals or on the web
It's Up To the Lab Director
The quality of quality initiatives
Discrepant Analysis
QC Outlier............s
Uniformity of Claims
Proficiency testing and six sigma
More on GUM 
Fault Isolation 
*Bland Altman Plots
Customer Misuse 
Risk Management II  
Unit use devices, POC and QC
Risk Management III
What it takes to get your idea accepted
Pedigree of Error Reduction Approaches

Patient Safety

Frequency of Preventable Medical Errors – Myth or Reality
Focus on systems, not people
*The anatomy of a near miss
Detection in FMEA - why it should not be included in a Pareto ranking
Recovery in FMEA
Latent errors
Preventable medical errors: Preventability and regulation
 *FMEA vs. FRACAS vs. RCA
Pay for performance - the missing measure
*FMEA Validation
Frequency of Preventable Medical Errors II - Where's the data
Pay for Performance II
Error Reporting Systems
The Reverse Pareto - not a good idea
When to conduct a FMEA  
FMEA FRACAS Fault Trees and Pareto 

Management

*How to write a report that will be read
Beware the technical Administrator

Programming

Let’s just dump the lab data on the Internet – not that easy
Software Validation