Indirectly determined hematology reference intervals for pediatric patients in Berlin and Brandenburg
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Ingo Mrosewski
, Tobias Dähn
Abstract
Objectives
Establishing direct reference intervals (RIs) for pediatric patients is a very challenging endeavor. Indirectly determined RIs can address this problem by utilization of existing clinical laboratory databases. In order to provide better laboratory services to the local pediatric population, we established population-specific hematology RIs via data mining.
Methods
Our laboratory information system (LIS) was searched for pediatric blood counts of patients aged from 0 days to 18 years, performed from 1st of January 2018 until 31st of March 2021. In total, 27,554 blood counts on our SYSMEX XN-9000 were initially identified. After application of pre-defined exclusion criteria, 18,531 sample sets remained. Age- and sex-specific RIs were established in accordance with International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) and Clinical & Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) recommendations.
Results
When compared to pediatric RIs supplied by other authors, the RIs determined specifically for pediatric patients from Berlin and Brandenburg showed several relevant differences, especially with regard to white blood cell counts (WBCs), red blood cell counts (RBCs), red cell distribution widths (RDW) and platelet counts (PLTs) within the distinct age groups. Additionally, alterations to several published age-specific partitions had to be made, while new sex-specific partitions were introduced for WBCs and PLTs.
Conclusions
Generic RIs from textbooks, manufacturer information and medical publications – even from nationwide or multicenter studies – commonly used in many laboratories might not reflect the specifics of local patient populations properly. RIs should be tailored to the serviced patient population whenever possible. Careful data mining appears to be suitable for this task.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Christin Renner for data retrieval from the laboratory information system.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
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Informed consent: Not applicable.
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Ethical approval: Research involving human subjects complied with all relevant national regulations, institutional policies and is in accordance with the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration (as revised in 2013), and has been approved by the authors’ Institutional Review Board (Ärztekammer Berlin) or equivalent committee. (Register-Nr.: 225128: 03/2021).
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- Obituary
- Dr Per Hyltoft Petersen: an appreciation
- Editorials
- Extrapolated normative GFR data for living kidney donation
- Effectiveness of interventions to improve test appropriateness
- Reviews
- The pathogenesis, epidemiology and biomarkers of susceptibility of pulmonary fibrosis in COVID-19 survivors
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- Mini Review
- Blood lactate concentration in COVID-19: a systematic literature review
- Opinion Paper
- Commercial immunoassays for detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike and RBD antibodies: urgent call for validation against new and highly mutated variants
- General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
- A randomized controlled study of biochemical tests in primary care: interventions can reduce the number of tests but usage does not become more appropriate
- A national surveillance program for evaluating new reagent lots in medical laboratories
- External quality assessment providers’ services appear to more impact the immunohaematology performance of laboratories than national regulatory and economic conditions
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- Hematology and Coagulation
- Monocyte distribution width (MDW): a useful biomarker to improve sepsis management in Emergency Department
- Diabetes
- A step towards optimal efficiency of HbA1c measurement as a first-line laboratory test: the TOP-HOLE (Towards OPtimal glycoHemOgLobin tEsting) project
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- Letters to the Editors
- Molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 eta VOI in Northern Italy: a case report
- Optimizing effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination: will laboratory stewardship play a role?
- Measurement in different sample types may aid in detecting interferences and macrocomplexes affecting cardiac troponin measurements
- Which method to detect macrotroponin?
- Marked geographical variation in the prevalence of macroprolactinemia
- Pancreatic lipase assays: time for a change towards immunoassays?
- Analytical evaluation of the performances of a new procalcitonin immunoassay
- Necessity of harmonization of tissue transglutaminase IgA assays to align clinical decision making in coeliac disease
- A fortuitous but characteristic blood smear observation allowing a late diagnosis of MPS-VII
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Obituary
- Dr Per Hyltoft Petersen: an appreciation
- Editorials
- Extrapolated normative GFR data for living kidney donation
- Effectiveness of interventions to improve test appropriateness
- Reviews
- The pathogenesis, epidemiology and biomarkers of susceptibility of pulmonary fibrosis in COVID-19 survivors
- S100B in cardiac surgery brain monitoring: friend or foe?
- Mini Review
- Blood lactate concentration in COVID-19: a systematic literature review
- Opinion Paper
- Commercial immunoassays for detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike and RBD antibodies: urgent call for validation against new and highly mutated variants
- General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
- A randomized controlled study of biochemical tests in primary care: interventions can reduce the number of tests but usage does not become more appropriate
- A national surveillance program for evaluating new reagent lots in medical laboratories
- External quality assessment providers’ services appear to more impact the immunohaematology performance of laboratories than national regulatory and economic conditions
- International collaborative study to evaluate and calibrate two recombinant L chain Ferritin preparations for use as a WHO International Standard
- Method comparison of three serum free light chain assays on the Roche Cobas 6000 c501 chemistry analyzer
- Prospective urinary albumin/creatinine ratio for diagnosis, staging, and organ response assessment in renal AL amyloidosis: results from a large cohort of patients
- Analytical evaluation of the Nittobo Medical tartrate resistant acid phosphatase isoform 5b (TRACP-5b) EIA and comparison with IDS iSYS in different clinically defined populations
- Reference Values and Biological Variations
- Age-adapted percentiles of measured glomerular filtration in healthy individuals: extrapolation to living kidney donors over 65 years
- Indirectly determined hematology reference intervals for pediatric patients in Berlin and Brandenburg
- Hematology and Coagulation
- Monocyte distribution width (MDW): a useful biomarker to improve sepsis management in Emergency Department
- Diabetes
- A step towards optimal efficiency of HbA1c measurement as a first-line laboratory test: the TOP-HOLE (Towards OPtimal glycoHemOgLobin tEsting) project
- Labile glycated hemoglobin: an underestimated laboratory marker of short term glycemia
- Infectious Diseases
- Neutralizing antibody titers six months after Comirnaty vaccination: kinetics and comparison with SARS-CoV-2 immunoassays
- Letters to the Editors
- Molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 eta VOI in Northern Italy: a case report
- Optimizing effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination: will laboratory stewardship play a role?
- Measurement in different sample types may aid in detecting interferences and macrocomplexes affecting cardiac troponin measurements
- Which method to detect macrotroponin?
- Marked geographical variation in the prevalence of macroprolactinemia
- Pancreatic lipase assays: time for a change towards immunoassays?
- Analytical evaluation of the performances of a new procalcitonin immunoassay
- Necessity of harmonization of tissue transglutaminase IgA assays to align clinical decision making in coeliac disease
- A fortuitous but characteristic blood smear observation allowing a late diagnosis of MPS-VII
- Prognostic significance of blood-based multi-cancer detection in plasma cell-free DNA