Physicians increasingly use laboratory-produced information for disease diagnosis, patient
monitoring, treatment planning, and evaluations of treatment effectiveness. Bias is the …

METHODS The retrospective study was conducted at the Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory,
PGIMS, Rohtak, which recently became a National Accreditation Board for Testing and …

Background and aim Sigma metrics are applied in clinical laboratories to assess the quality
of analytical processes. A parameter associated to a Sigma> 6 is considered “world class” …

Abstract VAN HEERDEN, Marli; GEORGE, Jaya A. and KHOZA, Siyabonga. The application
of sigma metrics in the laboratory to assess quality control processes in South Africa. Afr. J …

Background (a) To evaluate the clinical performance of endocrine analytes using the sigma
metrics (σ) model.(b) To redesign quality control strategies for performance improvement …

In the dawn of the laboratory medicine era, we had a different view of quality. Back when we
were pipetting tests by mouth, and we were constantly tinkering with the instrumentation …

Background: Six sigma is a powerful tool which can be used by laboratories for assessing
the method quality, optimizing Quality Control (QC) procedure, change the number of rules …

Background Urine reagent strip test (URST) results are semi-quantitative; therefore, the
precision of URSTs is evaluated as the proportion of categorical results from repeated …

Abstract Background Six Sigma (6σ) is an efficient laboratory management method. We
aimed to analyze the performance of immunology and protein analytes in terms of Six …

The verification of examination procedures is a responsibility for clinical laboratories in order
to guarantee that their performance characteristics comply with the specifications obtained …