Online Interactive Workshop ... M.O.R.E. Information

Here is more information and FAQs. You do not need to submit data to benefit.

Each laboratory can submit data for up to five instruments and will receive detailed reports. All participants will see summary reports of all instruments by code.

This online interactive workshop will consist primarily of brief videos that you can watch at your convenience, case studies with discussion forums and surveys. Each of these will be designed for your particular interests and to get feedback from each participant group.

The next workshop date has not been scheduled yet. Enrol now, and you will be able to submit your data as part of the study for the workshop.  We will contact you as soon as the date is scheduled.

• to estimate the clinical costs to patients and healthcare systems of errors in HbA1c results that mislead doctors to either [A] mis-classify patient as low risk instead of high risk, or vice-versa, or [B] think that the patient is improving or not improving when the opposite is actually true;

We will use default costs based on published models to start, and discuss your estimates.

See sample reports on workshop announcement page. Pass/Fail, costs and action advice are based on your uploaded risk drivers.

M.O.R.E. Quality simulates failure of acceptable risk criteria for daily QC (default = 5%) and calculates the average number of QC events (runs) before the first reject signal.

• to preview new CatalystQC™ software service from AWEsome Numbers Inc., employing the concepts and algorithms of Mathematically-OptimiZed Risk Evaluation™ (M.O.R.E.™) to determine the number, clinical costs and measurement uncertainty of medically significant errors reported from each participating laboratory in the workshop;

• to evaluate the effectiveness of existing quality control process by quantifying the number and clinical cost of errors that would be reported if each instrument was to fail
  

Team LEADERS will lead discussion forums for these topics