A new issue of CCLM is available online! Vol 57, Issue 1

following the agreement on mutual cooperation between EFLM and W. de Gruyter for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), it has been planned to send regularly to the EFLM contacts the table of contents of CCLM issues and the list of future titles as well. I do hope you will appreciate the initiative which is intended as a further service by EFLM to our European professional community.  CCLM is published on a monthly basis and is the most relevant Journal on Clinical Chemistry in Europe; it is a valuable and updated source of knowledge for the professionals in the field, well recognized all over the world.  The CCLM 2017 Impact Factor is 3.556.

With kindest regards,
MariaStella Graziani
Chair EFLM Communication Committee

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Terminology, units and reporting – how harmonized do we need to be?
Flatman, Robert

A pragmatic bottom-up approach to harmonize the units of clinical chemistry tests among Belgian clinical laboratories, focusing on immunoassays
Demarteau, Marianne / Cammaert, Piet / Vandevelde, Nathalie M. / Callewaert, Nico / Coucke, Wim / China, Bernard / Verstraete, Alain G.

Indirect methods for reference interval determination – review and recommendations
Jones, Graham R.D. / Haeckel, Rainer / Loh, Tze Ping / Sikaris, Ken / Streichert, Thomas / Katayev, Alex / Barth, Julian H. / Ozarda, Yesim

Verification of reference intervals in routine clinical laboratories: practical challenges and recommendations
Ozarda, Yesim / Higgins, Victoria / Adeli, Khosrow

An update report on the harmonization of adult reference intervals in Australasia
Koerbin, Gus / Sikaris, Ken / Jones, Graham R.D. / Flatman, Robert / Tate, Jillian R.

NUMBER: standardized reference intervals in the Netherlands using a ‘big data’ approach
den Elzen, Wendy P.J. / Brouwer, Nannette / Thelen, Marc H. / Le Cessie, Saskia / Haagen, Inez-Anne / Cobbaert, Christa M.

Pediatric and adult reference interval harmonization in Canada: an update
Parker, Michelle L. / Adeli, Khosrow

Report formatting in laboratory medicine – a call for harmony
Jones, Graham R.D. / Legg, Michael

Harmonization of interpretative comments in laboratory hematology reporting: the recommendations of the Working Group on Diagnostic Hematology of the Italian Society of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology (WGDH-SIBioC)
Buoro, Sabrina / Da Rin, Giorgio / Fanelli, Alessandra / Lippi, Giuseppe

Toward harmonization of clinical molecular diagnostic reports: findings of an international survey
Payne, Deborah A. / Baluchova, Katarina / Russomando, Graciela / Ahmad-Nejad, Parviz / Mamotte, Cyril / Rousseau, Francois / van Schaik, Ron H.N. / Marriott, Kristin / Maekawa, Masato / Chan, K.C. Allen

An evidence- and risk-based approach to a harmonized laboratory alert list in Australia and New Zealand
Campbell, Craig A. / Lam, Que / Horvath, Andrea R.

Harmonization of units and reference intervals of plasma proteins: state of the art from an External Quality Assessment Scheme
Secchiero, Sandra / Sciacovelli, Laura / Plebani, Mario
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Harmonization activities of Noklus – a quality improvement organization for point-of-care laboratory examinations
Stavelin, Anne / Sandberg, Sverre

Towards harmonization of external quality assessment/proficiency testing in hemostasis
Favaloro, Emmanuel J. / Jennings, Ian / Olson, John / Van Cott, Elizabeth M. / Bonar, Roslyn / Gosselin, Robert / Meijer, Piet

Extra-analytical quality indicators – where to now?
Aita, Ada / Sciacovelli, Laura / Plebani, Mario

Role of laboratory medicine in collaborative healthcare
Watson, Ian D. / Wilkie, Patricia / Hannan, Amir / Beastall, Graham H.

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