Educational Webinar: Application of Westgard Rules on assays newly regulated by CLIA 2024

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Westgard QC has analyzed new CLIA standards, developed new “Westgard Rules,” identified analytes with the largest reductions in allowable error and benchmarked analyzers to determine which instruments will be able to achieve CLIA’s new standards.

Applying the new “Westgard Rules” can help reduce QC and operational costs, as well as eliminate unnecessary repeats, recalibrations and troubleshooting episodes.

Join this session to learn how your lab can meet the challenges with performing more proficiency testing with strict targets.

Meet the Speaker:

Sten Westgard, Westgard Quality Control

Sten Westgard, MS, is the Director of Client Services and Technology for Westgard Quality Control. For over 25 years, Sten has managed the Westgard website, which has a global reach of 77,000 laboratory professionals, with more than 800 articles, case studies, essays, downloads and online calculation tools.

He has edited and contributed to numerous books on quality, including Basic QC Practices, Advanced QC Strategies, Basic Method Validation, Basic Quality Management Systems, Six Sigma QC Design and Control, Six Sigma Risk Analysis, CLIA Final Rules, Assuring the Right Quality Right, The Poor Lab’s Guide to the Regulations and Nothing but the Truth about Quality. He has co-edited two special issues of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine (2015 and 2017), as well as a special issue of Biochemica Medica (2018).

Sten is also an adjunct faculty member of the Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences in Rochester, Minnesota; an adjunct faculty member of the University of Alexandria, Egypt; an adjunct visiting faculty member of Manipal University in Mangalore, India; and a 2017 honorary visiting professor at Jiao Tong University, Shanghai.