Mario Plebani turns 70
Giuseppe Lippi, Philippe Gillery, Ronda Graeves, Karl J. Lackner, Bohuslav Melichar, Deborah A. Payne, Peter Schlattmann, Heike Jahnke, and Wolfgang Boettner
Measurement uncertainty and the importance of correlation
Ian Farrance and Robert Frenkel
Untangling the association between prostate-specific antigen and diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Mari Carmen Bernal-Soriano, Blanca Lumbreras, Ildefonso Hernández-Aguado, María Pastor-Valero, Maite López-Garrigos, and Lucy A. Parker
The emerging role of cell senescence in atherosclerosis
Chang-Meng Wu, Lei Zheng, Qian Wang, and Yan-Wei Hu
Minimum retesting intervals in practice: 10 years experience
Tim Lang
Cardiotoxic effects and myocardial injury: the search for a more precise definition of drug cardiotoxicity
Daniela Maria Cardinale, Martina Zaninotto, Carlo Maria Cipolla, Claudio Passino, Mario Plebani, and Aldo Clerico
The CRESS checklist for reporting stability studies: on behalf of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) Working Group for the Preanalytical Phase (WG-PRE)
Michael Cornes, Ana-Maria Simundic, Janne Cadamuro, Seán J. Costelloe, Geoffrey Baird, Gunn B. B. Kristensen, Alexander von Meyer, Mads Nybo, and Rubén Gómez Rioja
Thoughts and expectations of young professionals about the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM)
Josep Miquel Bauçà, Claudia E. Imperiali, Juan Robles, Jorge Díaz-Garzón, Dora Vuljanic, Ermin Begovic, Aleksei Tikhonov, Lejla Alic, Ana Nikler, and Ana-Maria Simundic
Evidence on clinical relevance of cardiovascular risk evaluation in the general population using cardio-specific biomarkers
Aldo Clerico, Martina Zaninotto, Claudio Passino, Nadia Aspromonte, Massimo Francesco Piepoli, Marco Migliardi, Marco Perrone, Antonio Fortunato, Andrea Padoan, Angelo Testa, Franco Dellarole, Tommaso Trenti, Sergio Bernardini, Laura Sciacovelli, Furio Colivicchi, Domenico Gabrielli, and Mario Plebani
A systematic evaluation of stool DNA preparation protocols for colorectal cancer screening via analysis of DNA methylation biomarkers
Shengnan Jin, Qian Ye, Yanping Hong, Wenqing Dai, Chengliang Zhang, Weihao Liu, Ying Guo, Dewen Zhu, Zhengzheng Zhang, Shiliang Chen, Yourong Wang, Dandan Li, Wen Ma, Zhengquan Yang, Jinlei Li, Zhihai Zheng, Ju Luan, Xiaoli Wu, Feizhao Jiang, Chang Xu, and Chunming Ding
The new IVD Regulation 2017/746: a case study at a large university hospital laboratory in Belgium demonstrates the need for clarification on the degrees of freedom laboratories have to use lab-developed tests to improve patient care
Pieter. Vermeersch, Tobias Van Aelst, and Elisabeth M.C. Dequeker
Evaluation of serum electrolytes measurement through the 6-year trueness verification program in China
Ying Yan, Yungang Pu, Jie Zeng, Tianjiao Zhang, Weiyan Zhou, Jiangtao Zhang, Jing Wang, Chao Zhang, Wenxiang Chen, and Chuanbao Zhang
Feasibility for aggregation of commutable external quality assessment results to evaluate metrological traceability and agreement among results
Eline A. E. van der Hagen, Cas Weykamp, Sverre Sandberg, Anne V. Stavelin, Finlay MacKenzie, and W. Greg Miller
Sample size and rejection limits for detecting reagent lot variability: analysis of the applicability of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) EP26-A protocol to real-world clinical chemistry data
Sollip Kim, Jeonghyun Chang, Soo-Kyung Kim, Sholhui Park, Jungwon Huh, and Tae-Dong Jeong
Effects of calcium dobesilate (CaD) interference on serum creatinine measurements: a national External Quality Assessment (EQA)-based educational survey of drug-laboratory test interactions
Tianjiao Zhang, Xiuzhi Guo, Li’an Hou, Haijian Zhao, Rong Ma, Liangyu Xia, Honglei Li, Tingting You, Ling Qiu, and Chuanbao Zhang
Mass spectrometric sample identification with indicator compounds introduced via labeled sample tubes
Michael Paal, Katharina Habler, and Michael Vogeser
Automation and validation of a MALDI-TOF MS (Mass-Fix) replacement of immunofixation electrophoresis in the clinical lab
Mindy Kohlhagen, Surendra Dasari, Maria Willrich, MeLea Hetrick, Brian Netzel, Angela Dispenzieri, and David L. Murray
A new strategy implementing mass spectrometry in the diagnosis of congenital disorders of N-glycosylation (CDG)
Bruno Casetta, Sabrina Malvagia, Silvia Funghini, Diego Martinelli, Carlo Dionisi-Vici, Rita Barone, Agata Fiumara, Maria Alice Donati, Renzo Guerrini, and Giancarlo la Marca
Analytical evaluation of four faecal immunochemistry tests for haemoglobin
Carolyn Piggott, Magdalen R. R. Carroll, Cerin John, Shane O’Driscoll, and Sally C. Benton
Study of total error specifications of lymphocyte subsets enumeration using China National EQAS data and Biological Variation Data Critical Appraisal Checklist (BIVAC)-compliant publications
Chenbin Li, Yu Wang, Hong Lu, Zhongli Du, Chengshan Xu, and Mingting Peng
Mass spectrometric quantification of urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin: age-dependent excretion and biological variation
Martijn van Faassen, Anna van der Veen, Sonja van Ockenburg, Helma de Jong, Elisabeth G. E. de Vries, and Ido P. Kema
Establishment of international autoantibody reference standards for the detection of autoantibodies directed against PML bodies, GW bodies, and NuMA protein
Bing Zheng, Rodrigo A. Mora, Marvin J. Fritzler, Minoru Satoh, Donald B. Bloch, Ignacio Garcia-De La Torre, Katherine Boylan, Kathryn Kohl, Mark H. Wener, Luis E. C. Andrade, and Edward K. L. Chan
Appropriate thresholds for accurate screening for β-thalassemias in the newborn period: results from a French center for newborn screening
Bichr Allaf, Corinne Pondarre, Slimane Allali, Mariane De Montalembert, Cécile Arnaud, Catherine Barrey, Malika Benkerrou, Patricia Benhaim, Philippe Bensaid, Valentine Brousse, Catherine Dollfus, Stéphanie Eyssette-Guerreau, Frédéric Galacteros, Vincent Gajdos, Nathalie Garrec, Cécile Guillaumat, Corinne Guitton, Marie Monfort-Gouraud, François Gouraud, Laurent Holvoet, Ghislaine Ithier, Annie Kamdem, Bérengère Koehl, Aurore Malric, Florence Missud, Brigitte Monier, Marie-Hélène Odièvre, Philippe Joly, Céline Renoux, Franck Patin, Serge Pissard, and Nathalie Couque
Analysis of B-type natriuretic peptide impurities using label-free data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry technology
Peng Xiao, Fan Zhang, Xinxue Wang, Dewei Song, and Hongmei Li
Hemoglobin variants in southern China: results obtained during the measurement of glycated hemoglobin in a large population
Anping Xu, Weidong Chen, Weijie Xie, Yajun Wang, and Ling Ji
Potential of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry to overcome the interference of hemoglobin variants on HbA1c measurement
Anping Xu, Weijie Xie, Yajun Wang, and Ling Ji
Acknowledgment
Measurement uncertainty estimation for derived biological quantities
Raúl Rigo-Bonnin and Francesca Canalias
Non-reproducible cardiac troponin results occurring with a particular reagent lot
Julien Favresse, Julie Cadrobbi, Christine Eucher, Kim Laffineur, Catherine Rosseels, Denis Pieters, Marc Elsen, and Jeremie Gras
Successfully meeting analytical expectations for the fast 0/1-h algorithm for NSTEMI by internal control procedures for cardiac troponin T
Wendy Endlich, Willemina J. Mensink, Wendy P. J. den Elzen, Laurens F. Tops, and Christa M. Cobbaert
Performance of perpendicular drop versus tangent skimming gating of M-protein in proficiency testing challenges
Maria Alice V. Willrich, Thomas A. Long, Christine Bashleben, Susan L. Fink, Joseph W. Rudolf, Daniel Peterson, Mark H. Wener, Richard J. Baltaro, Jonathan R. Genzen, Mohammad Qasim Ansari, Daniel D. Rhoads, and Michael A. Linden
Analytical evaluation of Reebio procalcitonin latex-enhanced immunoturbidimetric assay on the HITACHI Labospect 008AS
Shunzong Yuan, Naxin Zheng, Wenwen Zheng, Qian Jiang, Bing Qiao, Huarong Jing, Ying Li, Xiaoyu Qi, Wenjing Cao, and Shiping Song
Assessment of intraindividual agreement in prolactin results after post-polyethylene glycol precipitation test for the estimation of macroprolactin. Should the precipitation procedure be repeated in the same patient?
Laura Jimenez-Anon, Jaume Barallat, Diana Regidor, Eulalia Urgell, Maria Dolade, and Maria-Luisa Granada
Aggregation kinetic and temperature optimum of an EDTA-dependent pseudothrombocytopenia
Ayed Asma, Sethom Anissa, and Khelifi Touhami |
