Standards of laboratory practice symposium on thyroid-function testing: Introduction

Standards for thyroid laboratory testing, and cognitive functions after menopause

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study is to analyze the relationship between normative and non-normative thyroid tests (TSH, TT4, TT3, FT3, FT4, anti-TPO, anti-Tg, AB-TSHR) and the level of cognitive functions in postmenopausal women. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study group consisted of 383 women from south-eastern Poland, aged 50-65 years. The cognitive functions were evaluated using a diagnostic i...

Symposium Papers Standards and Interpretive Issues in Lung Function Testing

Pulmonary function tests are most useful when performed with good technique and with an accurate system. Using standard techniques in performing the tests minimizes diagnostic and therapeutic errors. This report discusses the rationale and limits of standardization and offers practical suggestions for using available standards to increase confidence in test results.

Standards of laboratory practice: antiepileptic drug monitoring

Discussion and development of standards for appropriate monitoring led to the following key recommendations for ordering, sampling, and analyzing antiepileptic drugs: Monitoring should usually be done on trough specimens after steady-state has been reached and always with an appropriate medical indication; nonsteady-state concentrations may be indicated in selected situations. Monitoring of fre...

Laboratory evaluation of thyroid function.

The laboratory assessment of thyroid function. Nomenclature.

It is clearly desirable that there should be an agreed standard nomenclature for thyroid function tests, and an agreed method of reporting them. A working party of the American Thyroid Association has proposed a 'Nomenclature for tests of thyroid hormones in serum' which was approved by that Association for publication (Solomon, Benotti, De Groot, Greer, Pilleggi, Pittman, Robbens, Selenkow, St...