Assuring the quality of examinations using faecal immunochemical tests for haemoglobin (FIT)
Callum G. Fraser
Capillary electrophoresis based on nucleic acid analysis for diagnosing inherited diseases
Dong-Sheng Lian, Xiang-Yuan Chen, Hua-Song Zeng, and Yan-Yi Wang
Negative hair test result after long-term drug use. About a case involving morphine and literature review
Pascal Kintz
Prorenin and active renin levels in paediatrics: a bioanalytical review
Ilja Burdman and Bjoern B. Burckhardt
From therapeutic drug monitoring to total drug monitoring and drug-omics
Michael Vogeser
The internal quality control in the traceability era
Federica Braga, Sara Pasqualetti, Elena Aloisio, and Mauro Panteghini
External quality assessment (EQA) and alternative assessment procedures (AAPs) in molecular diagnostics: findings of an international survey
Deborah A. Payne, Graciela Russomando, Mark W. Linder, Katarina Baluchova, Tester Ashavaid, Werner Steimer, Parviz Ahmad-Nejad, and the IFCC Committee for Molecular Diagnostics (C-MD)
An evaluation of ten external quality assurance scheme (EQAS) materials for the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) for haemoglobin
Shane O’Driscoll, Carolyn Piggott, Helen Bruce, and Sally C. Benton
Optimizing hepcidin measurement with a proficiency test framework and standardization improvement
Ellis T. Aune, Laura E. Diepeveen, Coby M. Laarakkers, Siem Klaver, Andrew E. Armitage, Sukhvinder Bansal, Michael Chen, Marianne Fillet, Huiling Han, Matthias Herkert, Outi Itkonen, Daan van de Kerkhof, Aleksandra Krygier, Thibaud Lefebvre, Peter Neyer, Markus Rieke, Naohisa Tomosugi, Cas W. Weykamp, and Dorine W. Swinkels
Development of a certified reference material for anti-β2-glycoprotein I IgG – commutability studies
Evanthia Monogioudi, Gustavo Martos, Joanna Sheldon, Pier Luigi Meroni, Stefanie Trapmann, and Ingrid Zegers
Influence of patients’ clinical features at intensive care unit admission on performance of cell cycle arrest biomarkers in predicting acute kidney injury
Bo Yang, Yun Xie, Francesco Garzotto, Ghada Ankawi, Alberto Passannante, Alessandra Brendolan, Raffaele Bonato, Mariarosa Carta, Davide Giavarina, Enrico Vidal, Dario Gregori, and Claudio Ronco
Efficacy of weekly administration of cholecalciferol on parathyroid hormone in stable kidney-transplanted patients with CKD stage 1–3
Stefania Sella, Luciana Bonfante, Maria Fusaro, Flavia Neri, Mario Plebani, Martina Zaninotto, Andrea Aghi, Georgie Innico, Giovanni Tripepi, Alberto Michielin, Tancredi Prandini, Lorenzo A. Calò, and Sandro Giannini
Plasma metanephrines and prospective prediction of tumor location, size and mutation type in patients with pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma
Graeme Eisenhofer, Timo Deutschbein, Georgiana Constantinescu, Katharina Langton, Christina Pamporaki, Bruna Calsina, Maria Monteagudo, Mirko Peitzsch, Stephanie Fliedner, Henri J. L. M. Timmers, Nicole Bechmann, Maria Fankhauser, Svenja Nölting, Felix Beuschlein, Anthony Stell, Martin Fassnacht, Aleksander Prejbisz, Jacques W. M. Lenders, and Mercedes Robledo
Emicizumab, the factor VIII mimetic bi-specific monoclonal antibody and its measurement in plasma
Armando Tripodi, Veena Chantarangkul, Cristina Novembrino, Erica Scalambrino, Massimo Boscolo-Anzoletti, Marigrazia Clerici, Federica Rossi, and Flora Peyvandi
Age appropriate reference intervals for eight kidney function and injury markers in infants, children and adolescents
Tamara van Donge, Eveline Staub, Andrew Atkinson, Verena Gotta, John van den Anker, Lorenz Risch, Tatjana Welzel, and Marc Pfister
Comparison of acetylsalicylic acid and clopidogrel non-responsiveness assessed by light transmittance aggregometry and PFA-100® in patients undergoing neuroendovascular procedures
Christina C. Rolling, Julia Tomada, Andreas M. Frölich, Brigitte Holst, Katharina Holstein, Minna Voigtländer, Snjezana Janjetovic, Munif Haddad, Thomas Renné, Jens Fiehler, Carsten Bokemeyer, Thierry Rolling, and Florian Langer
Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) predicts short- and long-term mortality and poor neurological outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients
Seraina R. Hochstrasser, Kerstin Metzger, Alessia M. Vincent, Christoph Becker, Annalena K. J. Keller, Katharina Beck, Sebastian Perrig, Kai Tisljar, Raoul Sutter, Philipp Schuetz, Luca Bernasconi, Peter Neyer, Stephan Marsch, and Sabina Hunziker
Non-lactate strong ion difference and cardiovascular, cancer and all-cause mortality
Ashish Verma and Rehan Qayyum
Performance of three automated SARS-CoV-2 antibody assays and relevance of orthogonal testing algorithms
Evelyne Huyghe, Hilde Jansens, Veerle Matheeussen, Ilse Hoffbauer, Herman Goossens, and Bart Peeters
Development, evaluation, and validation of machine learning models for COVID-19 detection based on routine blood tests
Federico Cabitza, Andrea Campagner, Davide Ferrari, Chiara Di Resta, Daniele Ceriotti, Eleonora Sabetta, Alessandra Colombini, Elena De Vecchi, Giuseppe Banfi, Massimo Locatelli, and Anna Carobene
Searching for a role of procalcitonin determination in COVID-19: a study on a selected cohort of hospitalized patients
Alberto Dolci, Cristina Robbiano, Elena Aloisio, Mariia Chibireva, Ludovica Serafini, Felicia Stefania Falvella, Sara Pasqualetti, and Mauro Panteghini
Association of kidney function with effectiveness of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic treatment: a patient-level meta-analysis from randomized controlled trials
Eva Heilmann, Claudia Gregoriano, Yannick Wirz, Charles-Edouard Luyt, Michel Wolff, Jean Chastre, Florence Tubach, Mirjam Christ-Crain, Lila Bouadma, Djillali Annane, Pierre Damas, Kristina B. Kristoffersen, Carolina F. Oliveira, Daiana Stolz, Michael Tamm, Evelien de Jong, Konrad Reinhart, Yahya Shehabi, Alessia Verduri, Vandack Nobre, Maarten Nijsten, Dylan W. deLange, Jos A.H. van Oers, Albertus Beishuizen, Armand R.J. Girbes, Beat Mueller, and Philipp Schuetz
Corrigendum to: The role of hyperhomocysteinemia as well as folate, vitamin B6 and B12 deficiencies in osteoporosis – a systematic review
Markus Herrmann, Johannes Peter Schmidt, Natalia Umanskaya, Alexandra Wagner, Omid Taban-Shomal, Thomas Widmann, Graziana Colaianni, Britt Wildemann, and Wolfgang Herrmann
Harmonization of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) testing by reporting test result-specific likelihood ratios: position paper
Xavier Bossuyt, Jan Damoiseaux, Niels Rasmussen, Pieter van Paassen, Bernard Hellmich, Bo Baslund, Daniel Blockmans, Pieter Vermeersch, Marcos Lopez-Hoyos, Martine Vercammen, Elisa Barret, Friederike Hammar, Ulrich Leinfelder, Michael Mahler, Nina Olschowka, Dirk Roggenbuck, Wolfgang Schlumberger, Roger Walker, Johan Rönnelid, Jan-Willem Cohen Tervaert, Elena Csernok, Walter Fierz, and for (i) the European Federation of Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) Task and Finish Group “Autoimmunity Testing,” (ii) the European Autoimmune Standardization Initiative (EASI) and the (iii) European Consensus Finding Study Group on autoantibodies (ECFSG)
Independent internal quality control (IQC) for faecal immunochemical tests (FIT) for haemoglobin: use of FIT manufacturers’ IQC for other FIT systems
Carolyn Piggott, Zinab Shugaa, and Sally C. Benton
Parallel testing of 241 clinical nasopharyngeal swabs for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus on the Cepheid Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2 and the Roche cobas SARS-CoV-2 assays
Jason Wei Ming Tham, Shu Chi Ng, Chean Nee Chai, Siyu Png, Eunice Jia Min Tan, Li Jie Ng, Rui Ping Chua, Musa Sani, Donald Chiang, Ker Xin Tan, Nancy Wen Sim Tee, Roland Jureen, Shaun S. Tan, Gabriel Yan, Benedict Yan, and Chun Kiat Lee
Sustained SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antibody levels in nonsevere COVID-19: a population-based study
Anna Schaffner, Lorenz Risch, Myriam Weber, Sarah Thiel, Katharina Jüngert, Michael Pichler, Nadia Wohlwend, Thomas Lung, Michael Ritzler, Dorothea Hillmann, Sandra Copeland, Harald Renz, Matthias Paprotny, and Martin Risch
Evidence for increased circulating procoagulant phospholipids in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and their prognostic role
Stelios F. Assimakopoulos, Andreas Emmanuil, Asimina Tsimeka, Theodora Chalkidi, Markos Marangos, and Charalambos Gogos
Complete blood counts and cell population data from Sysmex XN analyser in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection
Eloísa Urrechaga, Urko Aguirre, Pablo Pedro España, and Luis García de Guadiana
Macro creatine kinase in an asymptomatic patient: a case report
Lei Zhang, Fengjuan Han, Xiao Liu, Chunxia Xie, Kegang Tian, Qingqing Bi, Mingju Hao, and Xiaofeng Mu
Implementation of pre-labelled barcode tubes and the GeT-System in a general hospital for the exact documentation of the time of venous blood sample and improvement of sample quality
Gabriele Halwachs-Baumann and Birgit Winninger
Determination of free light chains: assay-dependent differences in interpretation
Xavier Bossuyt, Koen Poesen, Ben Sprangers, Martin Reynders, Martine Vercammen, and Michel Delforge
Association between SOX17, Wif-1 and RASSF1A promoter methylation status and response to chemotherapy in patients with metastatic gastric cancer
Evangelos Karamitrousis, Ioanna Balgkouranidou, Nikolaos Xenidis, Kyriakos Amarantidis, Eirini Biziota, Triantafyllia Koukaki, Gregorios Trypsianis, Anastasios Karayiannakis, Heleni Bolanaki, Ekaterini Chatzaki, Georgios Kolios, Evi Lianidou, Maria Lambropoulou, and Stylianos Kakolyris
Effect of two organizational interventions on the frequency of haemoglobin A1c and erythrocyte sedimentation rate testing
Janne Cadamuro, Cornelia Mrazek, Martin H. Keppel, Thomas K. Felder, Hannes Oberkofler, and Elisabeth Haschke-Becher
Haemoglobin A1c determination from dried blood spots prepared with HemaSpot™ blood collection devices: comparison with fresh capillary blood
Jenny M. Hall, Claire F. Fowler, M. Anne Pollock, and Sandra M. MacRury
Stability of catecholamines in whole blood: influence of time between collection and centrifugation
Quentin Despinasse, Luc Choisnard, Patrice Faure, Denis Guicherd, Eric Peyrin, Corinne Ravelet, and Benoit Chovelon |
