Journal Information
Journal ID (publisher-id): BM
Journal ID (nlm-ta): Biochem Med (Zagreb)
Title: Biochemia Medica
Abbreviated Title: Biochem. Med. (Zagreb)
ISSN (print): 1330-0962
ISSN (electronic): 1846-7482
Publisher: Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Article Information
Copyright statement: Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine.
Copyright: 2017, Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry
License (open-access):
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Date received: 10 January 2018
Date accepted: 08 March 2018
Publication date (print and electronic): 15 June 2018
Volume: 28
Issue: 2
Electronic Location Identifier: 020502
Publisher ID: bm-28-2-020502
DOI: 10.11613/BM.2018.020502
Analytical Sigma metrics: A review of Six Sigma implementation tools for medical laboratories
Sigma metrics have become a useful tool for all parts of the quality control (QC) design process. Through the allowable total error model of laboratory testing, analytical assay performance can be judged on the Six Sigma scale. This not only allows benchmarking the performance of methods and instruments on a universal scale, it allows laboratories to easily visualize performance, optimize the QC rules and numbers of control measurements they implement, and now even schedule the frequency of running those controls.
Keywords: Six Sigma metrics; quality control frequency; OPSpecs chart; method decision chart; Westgard rules
