Towards laboratory knowledge, not data, in 70% of clinical decision-making. What “knowledge management” can add to clinical practice?

Articles in the same Issue

1. Editorial
2. Pneumatic tube delivery systems for patient samples: evidence of quality and quality of evidence
3. Reviews
4. Translating pharmacogenetics into clinical practice: interleukin (IL)28B and inosine triphosphatase (ITPA) polymophisms in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection
5. New biomarkers for acute renal injury
6. Minireview
7. Post-mortem biochemistry of vitreous humor and glucose metabolism: an update
8. Opinion Paper
9. International Osteoporosis Foundation and International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine Position on bone marker standards in osteoporosis
10. Guidelines and Recommendations
11. IFCC international conventional reference procedure for the measurement of free thyroxine in serum
12. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
13. Improving clinical laboratory efficiency: a time-motion evaluation of the Abbott m2000 RealTime and Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan PCR systems for the simultaneous quantitation of HIV-1 RNA and HCV RNA
14. Enhanced frequency of CFTR gene variants in couples who are candidates for assisted reproductive technology treatment
15. Customer satisfaction survey to improve the European cystic fibrosis external quality assessment scheme
16. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
17. Effect of sample collection, temperature and time of storage on β-galactosidase and total hexosaminidase activities in dried blood collected on filter paper
18. Agreement between paired blood gas values in samples transported either by a pneumatic system or by human courier
19. Golgi protein 73(GP73), a useful serum marker in liver diseases
20. The utility of six over-the-counter (home) pregnancy tests
21. N Latex FLC – new monoclonal high-performance assays for the determination of free light chain kappa and lambda
22. Alterations of the preoperative coagulation profile in patients with acute appendicitis
23. Cerebrospinal fluid findings in infants with pertussis or parapertussis¹⁾
24. Calcium pyrophosphate and monosodium urate crystals in synovial fluid as a cause of pseudoeosinophilia
25. Cardiovascular Disease
26. Dual activity of serum lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A₂ yielding positive and inverse associations with cardiometabolic risk
27. The value of N-terminal proB-type natriuretic peptide for early identification of myocardial infarction in patients with high-risk non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes
28. Infectious Diseases
29. Diagnosis and genotyping of Plasmodium falciparum by a DNA biosensor based on quartz crystal microbalance (QCM)
30. Evaluation of two automated chemiluminescence immunoassays, the LIAISON Treponema Screen and the ARCHITECT Syphilis TP, and the Treponema pallidum particle agglutination test for laboratory diagnosis of syphilis
31. Letters to the Editor
32. The preanalytical influence of two different mechanical transport systems on laboratory analysis
33. Commutability of the ERM-DA470k Reference Material for two assays measuring serum albumin using immunochemical principles
34. Performance evaluation of the Vitros^®3600 immunodiagnostic system for the determination of free thyroid hormones
35. Towards laboratory knowledge, not data, in 70% of clinical decision-making. What “knowledge management” can add to clinical practice?
36. How to obtain DNA from injection drug users?