The Laboratory

I-10: QA in The ART Laboratory

The establishment of a high quality ART program requires a multi-disciplinary effort, involvement and commitment of all staff members - team work. It is of vital importance that all aspects of the treatments are taken into consideration and that you already from the start use international guidelines, standards and indicators to initiate the construction of a well-organised ART program that mee...

Laboratory methods in the haemostatic laboratory.

Thromb Haemost 2006; 96: 545–6 The current theme issue ofThrombosis and Haemostasis focuses on a panel of important topics regarding laboratory methods in the haemostatic laboratory. There is general agreement that tailoring laboratory assays to correlate with clinical phenotypes is essential for effective coagulation monitoring. Thus, it is not surprising that during the last decade concepts f...

Clinical and Laboratory Surveys of the Iranian Celiac Patients

Background and Objectives: As an autoimmune disease, celiac is triggered by exposure to dietary gluten in genetically susceptible individuals, leading to various gastrointestinal and non-gastrointestinal symptoms. The aim of the current study was to accurately investigate epidemiology of the celiac disease in Hamadan Province, Iran. Materials and Methods: This study was carried out as a case s...

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

The role of laboratory parameters in COVID-19 diagnosis