Quality Control Crossword Puzzle
QUESTIONS LIST: data: facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis, westgard: qc system that uses a combination of decision criteria, or control rules, to decide whether an analytical run is acceptable, calibration: the act or process of determining, checking, or rectifying the settings or gradations on a measuring instrument or other piece of precision equipment, sd: measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, mean: the averaged of a given set of numbers, troubleshooting: term used to describe the thought process or action of investigating qc errors, qc: samples with known values, processed to assess the reliability of patient test results, histogram: graphic summary (pictorial) of variation in a set of data, scatterplot: mathematical diagram that uses dots to represent values for 2 different variables on an axis, precision: the amount of variation that exists in the values of multiple measurements of the same characteristic or parameter, repeatability: the precision of repeated measurements under identical conditions, reproducibility: the precision of measurements taken by different people in different places at different times, trend: the graphical representation of a variable's tendency, over time, to increase, decrease or remain unchanged, validation: the act of confirming a result