Our well-established control for CSF diagnostics, Duotrol® CSF Liquor, is now reinforced by the new accuracy control Duotrol® CSQ Advanced, which replaces the previous Duotrol® CSQ Liquor. In addition to the standard parameters of CSF diagnostics, it offers values for ferritin in CSF for the detection of cerebral hemorrhages. Furthermore, by lowering the values [...]
“Are you addicted?” This is the title of Oswald Sonntag’s report on independent quality controls and their significance in the magazine Trillium Diagnostik TD4/2019, starting on page 156. ISO 15189 indicates independent quality controls. The IVDR now also sets new standards for independent control material. Up to now, only the interlaboratory test in Germany [...]
Following validation and verification, the quality standard of control results in laboratories is now also declining. This is stated in the essay “Diluting Quality Standards: Validation, Verification and now “Confirmation” by James O. Westgard and Sten A. Westgard from September 2020. The changes made by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) to its 2020 [...]
