Laboratory Diagnostic Oversight Committees and the Profession of Laboratory Medicine

Laboratory diagnostic methods of malaria infection

Malaria is one of the most important tropical infectious diseases. The incidence of malaria worldwide is estimated to be 300–500 million clinical cases each year with a mortality of between one and three million people worldwide annually. The accurate and timely diagnosis of malaria infection is essential if severe complications and mortality are to be reduced by early specific antimalarial tre...

Methodology in diagnostic laboratory test research in clinical chemistry and clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine.

BACKGROUND The application of epidemiologic principles to clinical diagnosis has been less developed than in other clinical areas. Knowledge of the main flaws affecting diagnostic laboratory test research is the first step for improving its quality. We assessed the methodologic aspects of articles on laboratory tests. METHODS We included articles that estimated indexes of diagnostic accuracy ...

Diagnostic Errors and Laboratory Medicine – Causes and Strategies

While the frequency of laboratory errors varies greatly, depending on the study design and steps of the total testing process (TTP) investigated, a series of papers published in the last two decades drew the attention of laboratory professionals to the pre- and post-analytical phases, which currently appear to be more vulnerable to errors than the analytical phase. In particular, a high frequen...

The Laboratory Diagnostic Solution

Laboratory Medicine

Copyright © 2013 Mina Hur et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Clinical laboratories have a vital role to play in translating research findings into clinically useful measurements. This involves assessment of new...