INTRODUCTION Poor harmonization of critical results management is present in various laboratories and countries, including Croatia. We aimed to investigate procedures used in critical results reporting in Croatian medical biochemistry laboratories (MBLs). MATERIALS AND METHODS An anonymous questionnaire, consisting of 24 questions/statements, related to critical results reporting procedures, ...

Latent damage effects from single-event latchup are studied, revealing a previously unconsidered reliability hazard for CMOS devices. Several device types were found to remain functional despite significant structural damage to their interconnects from SEL. Latent Damage in CMOS Devices from Single-Event Latchup Heidi N. Becker, Tetsuo F. Miyahira, and Allan H. Johnston Jet Propulsior? Laborato...

An intercomparison of spectral irradiance measurements by 12 national laboratories has been carried out between 1987 and 1990. The intercomparison was conducted under the auspices of the Comité Consultatif de Photometrie et Radiometrie (CCPR) of the Comité International des Poids et Mesures, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) served as the pilot laboratory. The spectr...

background: nowadays, healthcare systems are considered as important service sectors, and they are social development and welfare standards; hence the performance of this sector is highly important. evaluating performance is the first step of various departments to determine the efficiency of the healthcare system. in the meantime, diagnostic laboratories of hospitals play important roles as sp...

material hazards are the most important risk in scientific laboratories. in risk assessment processing, the potential impact of assessor personal judgment is the most important issue. this study tried to develop a risk assessment pattern based on failure mode and effect analysis (fmea) and analytical hierarchy process (ahp) logics and empirical data in scientific laboratories. the most importan...

A wide variety of mathematical and statistical software tools are available today, and the list grows daily. Means for representing and storing data and scientific information are likewise increasing, from sophisticated database and knowledge base technologies to high-speed, high-resolution graphics. Imagine a computing environment that couples all of these in a user-friendly way, using the bes...