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Accurate results in the clinical laboratory : a guide to error detection and correction /
"Accurate Results in the Clinical Laboratory: A Guide to Error Detection and Correction, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive review of the factors leading to errors in all areas of clinical laboratory testing. This trusted guide addresses interference issues in all laboratory tests, includ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
[2019]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I: Sources of errors in clinical laboratories: an overview. Variation, errors, and quality in the clinical laboratory
- Errors in patient preparation, specimen collection, anticoagulant and preservative use: how to avoid such pre-analytical errors
- Sample processing and specimen misidentification issues: major sources of pre-analytical errors
- Effect of patient-related factors on clinical laboratory test results
- Interferences of hemolysis, lipemia and high bilirubin on laboratory tests
- Immunoassay design
- Overview of other sources of interferences in immunoassays: prozone effect and interferences from heterophilic antibodies and autoantibodies
- Biotin interference in clinical laboratory tests: sporadic problem or a serious clinical issue?
- II: Sources of errors in clinical chemistry laboratory. Challenges in routine clinical chemistry testing analysis of small molecules
- Challenges in routine clinical chemistry analysis: proteins and enzymes
- Challenges in endocrinology testing
- Pitfalls in testing for common tumor markers
- III: Sources of errors in therapeutic drug monitoring and toxicology. Issues of interferences in therapeutic drug monitoring
- Limitations of immunoassays for screening of drugs of abuse in urine: issues of false positive and false negative results
- Challenges in confirmation testing for drugs of abuse
- Issues of false negative results in toxicology: difficult in detecting certain drugs and issues with detection of synthetic cathinone (bath salts), synthetic cannabinoids (spice), and other new psychoactive substances
- Ethanol determination using automated analyzers: limitations and pitfalls
- IV: Herbal medicines and laboratory testings. Effects of herbal supplements on clinical laboratory test results
- V: Sources of errors in immunology laboratory. Critical issues in hemoglobinopathy detection and serology testing for HIV and hepatitis infections
- Sources of errors in immunology and serology testing
- VI: Sources of errors in molecular, genetic and related testings. Sources of error in molecular diagnostic analyses
- Molecular testing for targeted therapies and pharmacogenomics
- Challenges and sources of inaccuracy in biochemical genetics testing
- VII: Sources of errors in microbiology testings. Sources of pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical errors in the microbiology laboratory
- VIII: Sources of errors in hematology and coagulation testings. Sources of errors in hematology testing
- Sources of errors in coagulation testing
- Sources of errors in flow cytometry
- IX: Sources of errors in transfusion medicine. Interferences in blood bank testing
- Errors and adverse effects of blood transfusion
- X: Sources of errors in point of care testing. Methodological issues in point of care testing devices
- Special concern: sources of inaccuracy in breath alcohol analysis.