Accurate results in the clinical laboratory : a guide to error detection and correction /
Addresses interference issues in all laboratory tests, including patient epigenetics, process of specimen collection, enzymes, and biomarkers. Intended to help clinicians become proficient in identifying erroneous reports, understand the source of interferences, correct the results, and then decide...
| Other Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
[2013]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book. |
Table of Contents:
- Variation, errors, and quality in the clinical laboratory
- Effect of age, gender, diet, exercise, and ethnicity on laboratory test results
- Effect of patient preparation, specimen collection, anticoagulants, and preservatives on laboratory test results
- Sample processing and specimen misidentification issues
- Hemolysis, lipemia, and high bilirubin : effect on laboratory tests
- Immunoassay design and mechanisms of interferences
- Effect of herbal remedies on clinical laboratory tests
- Challenges in routine clinical chemistry testing : analysis of small molecules
- Challenges in routine clinical chemistry analysis : proteins and enzymes
- Sources of inaccuracy in biochemical genetics testing
- Challenges in endocrinology testing
- Pitfalls in tumor markers testing
- Issues of interferences in therapeutic drug monitoring
- Limitations of drugs of abuse testing
- Challenges in confirmation testing for drugs of abuse
- Alcohol determination using automated analyzers : limitations and pitfalls
- Pre-analytical issues and interferences in transfusion medicine tests
- Issues with immunology and serology testing
- Sources of errors in hematology and coagulation testing
- Challenges in clinical microbiology testing
- Sources of errors in molecular testing
- Problems in pharmacogenomics testing.