Widespread use of point-of-care testing is irreconcilable with the present-day quest for safety

Artikel in diesem Heft

1. Editorial
2. Darwinian evolution or regression? The fate of laboratory professionals
3. Review
4. Automated reticulocyte counting: state of the art and clinical applications in the evaluation of erythropoiesis
5. Minireview
6. Laboratory diagnostics in acute poisoning: critical overview
7. Opinion Papers
8. On the origins of physicians: Darwinian or Lamarckian evolution?
9. Observed, unknown distributions of clinical chemical quantities should be considered to be log-normal: a proposal
10. Guidelines and Recommendations
11. Development and description of GETT: a Genetic testing Evidence Tracking Tool
12. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
13. DNA sequencing errors in molecular diagnostics of filamin myopathy
14. High resolution melting for the identification of mutations in the iron responsive element of the ferritin light chain gene
15. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
16. Detection of serum free light chains: the problem with antigen excess
17. Hepcidin concentrations and iron homeostasis in preeclampsia
18. Automated assay for non-transferrin-bound iron in serum samples
19. A simple liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for urinary free cortisol analysis: suitable for routine purpose
20. Evaluation of a multiplex assay for adipokine concentrations in obese children
21. The use of serial patient blood gas, electrolyte and glucose results to derive biologic variation: a new tool to assess the acceptability of intensive care unit testing
22. Point-of-care determination of neonatal bilirubin with the blood gas analyzer RapidLab 1265
23. The effect of pre-analytical variables on light transmittance aggregometry in citrated platelet-rich plasma from healthy subjects
24. Cancer Diagnostics
25. Clinical significance of serum macrophage-colony stimulating factor (M-CSF) in esophageal cancer patients and its comparison with classical tumor markers
26. VKORC1 haplotypes influence the performance characteristics of PIVKAII for screening of hepatocellular carcinoma
27. Serum soluble tumour necrosis factor receptor type I concentrations independently predict prognosis in patients with breast cancer
28. Variations in systemic biomarkers of oxidative/nitrosative stress and DNA damage before and during the consequent two cycles of chemotherapy in breast cancer patients
29. Spurious increase in serum chromogranin A: the role of heterophilic antibodies
30. Infectious Diseases
31. Identification and evaluation of a new nucleic acid amplification test target for specific detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
32. Application of an oligonucleotide microarray-based nano-amplification technique for the detection of fungal pathogens
33. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for simultaneous quantification of four triazole antifungal agents in human plasma
34. Evaluation of two sirolimus assays using the ARCHITECT-i1000^® CMIA or RxL^® ACMIA methods in comparison with the IMx^® MEIA method
35. Widespread use of point-of-care testing is irreconcilable with the present-day quest for safety
36. Congress Abstracts
37. 3rd Annual Congress of the Austrian Society for Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Chemistry Salzburg, Austria, 27-30 October 2010