background and objective: improved and modified automation will require the development of smart process control systems that provide on-line decisions to release patients’ test results based on high analytical quality assurance formula. materials and methods: we collected patients’ test results from 10840 healthy subjects based on 1.96z as truncation limit for 29 common haematochemical analyte...

after four years of publishing the iranian national laboratory standard and following a strategic plan to implement its requirements, it was decided to review the taken actions, evaluating the achievements and the failures, as well as analyzing the gaps and planning the interventional activities to resolve the problems. a thorough evaluation revealed that the progress of implementation process ...

MD. Associate pathologist, Pathology Reference Laboratory, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil. MD. Pathologist, Hospital Regional da Asa Norte (HRAN), Brasília, Federal District, Brazil. MD. Urologist, Hospital Regional da Asa Norte (HRAN), Brasília, Federal District, Brazil. MD. General surgeon, Hospital Regional da Asa Norte (HRAN), Brasília, Federal District, Brazil. MD, PhD. Chief pathologist, Pat...

Christian Chidiac, MD, PhD and Florent Valour, MD, PhD; Inserm 1111, UCBL1, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, ID Department, Regional Reference Center for Bji, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, Laboratory of Bacteriology, Regional Reference Center for Bji, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, Laboratory ID Department, Regional Reference Center for Bji, Hospices Civils de Lyon – Hôpi...

Christian Chidiac, MD, PhD and Florent Valour, MD, PhD; Inserm 1111, UCBL1, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, ID Department, Regional Reference Center for Bji, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, Laboratory of Bacteriology, Regional Reference Center for Bji, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France, Laboratory ID Department, Regional Reference Center for Bji, Hospices Civils de Lyon – Hôpi...

  Background and Objective: Improved and modified automation will require the development of smart process control systems that provide on-line decisions to release patients’ test results based on high analytical quality assurance formula. Materials and Methods: We collected patients’ test results from 10840 healthy subjects based on 1.96z as truncation limit for 29 common haematochemical ana...

A 29-year-old para 0 gravida 2 woman with a history of infertility and spontaneous abortion presented to her local hospital at 9 weeks gestation with severe nausea and vomiting. Symptoms persisted for 10 weeks, leading to the diagnosis of hyperemesis gravidarum and treatment with intravenous fluids (3 times/week) and Zofran. At 8 weeks gestation, laboratory tests were unremarkable with the exce...

INTRODUCTION Accurate clinical laboratory reference values derived from a local or regional population base are required to correctly interpret laboratory results. In Botswana, most reference intervals used to date are not standardized across clinical laboratories and are based on values derived from populations in the United States or Western Europe. METHODS We measured 14 hematologic and bi...

*Corresponding author (email: ) Regional Research Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Diagnosis, Research, Reference and Training in Lepospirosis, Regional Medical Research Centre (ICMR), Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India and meningoencephalitis. In view of varied clinical manifestations, laboratory support is needed for confirmation of the diagnosis of this...