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HORIBA UK Ltd, Medical announces the launch of its new newsletter with a focus on blood morphology, which will draw on and share the knowledge of HORIBA Medical hematology with a wide audience. The Quality Slide Program (QSP) newsletter offers detailed morphology case studies, disease focus, high morphology recommendations, slide reviews, and questionnaires, a useful cross-hematology platform education tool for blood cell identification. Monthly cases are available for download and subscription from the HORIBA Medical website.
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Features in the latest issue of the newsletter include a focus on Hereditary Spherocytosis that provides an overview of the clinical features of this heterogeneous disorder group, laboratory results, and treatment. As well as suggestions on how you can differentiate between eosinophils and basophils, and a clinical case study of the emergency diagnosis of a 76-year-old male with connective cell lymphoma.
The QSP newsletter can be used as an independent educational tool or as part of the HORIBA 2.0 Quality Slide Program (QSP) 2.0 morphology training package. This offers six digital cell morphology slides of real cases for download and analysis to enable ongoing training and feasibility assessment each month.
Just as the QSP monthly newsletter is a valuable educational tool for any hematologist involved in cell morphology, HORIBA’s QSP 2.0 online learning packages support the assessment of blood cell recognition in -all laboratories, regardless of their hematology platform. This helps to build and solidify the knowledge base of blood film morphology within the hematology laboratory.
The Quality Slide Show (QSP) 2.0 is a unique and affordable digital tool for morphology skills assessment and training covering a wide variety of pathologies seen across the globe. Using high-definition digital cell morphology imaging, the QSP 2.0 software enables laboratory staff to analyze and report pre-selected and re-selected digital blood films with experts.
As well as supporting continuous learning and building staff confidence, this will also help regulate a range of potentially compliant laboratories. In addition, it enables laboratory managers to assess the ability of their staff to correctly classify white blood cell (WBC) numbers and other identified elements correctly in accordance with ISO15189 quality control requirements.
HORIBA recognizes and understands the important work that the hematology laboratory community does and aims to fully support it. Our QSP newsletter is one example of this, it offers relevant industry and clinical insights and information on blood cell morphology for general updates, as well as challenges and actions to aid staff training and development.
Listening to feedback from our readers, we have now updated the look and feel of our QSP newsletter to make it even more useful and appealing to the wider hematology laboratory community. ”
Kelly Duffy, HORIBA Medical Sales Specialist and editor of the QSP newsletter
Other examples of HORIBA’s commitment to supporting learning and belief in hematology include, among other things, a series of cell morphology quick reference posters that are available on demand as a useful addition and color for laboratory walls. HORIBA UK will also be running an education webinar on QSP in April 2021.
Download or sign up to receive the HORIBA Medical monthly QSP cell morphology newsletter at https://www.horiba.com/en_en/medical/qsp-newsletter/