Evaluation of serum cortisol biological variation in the evening withdrawal

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1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Tumor microenvironment and systemic disease: a dual target in medical oncology (also in the case of biomarkers)
4. Reviews
5. Sample types applied for molecular diagnosis of therapeutic management of advanced non-small cell lung cancer in the precision medicine
6. The impact of pneumatic tube system on routine laboratory parameters: a systematic review and meta-analysis
7. Opinion Paper
8. How to reduce scientific irreproducibility: the 5-year reflection
9. EFLM Paper
10. Strategies to define performance specifications in laboratory medicine: 3 years on from the Milan Strategic Conference
11. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
12. Intensive educational efforts combined with external quality assessment improve the preanalytical phase in general practitioner offices and nursing homes
13. Separate patient serum sodium medians from males and females provide independent information on analytical bias
14. Are admission procalcitonin levels universal mortality predictors across different medical emergency patient populations? Results from the multi-national, prospective, observational TRIAGE study
15. Biochemical testing in a laboratory tent and semi-intensive care of Ebola patients on-site in a remote part of Guinea: a paradigm shift based on a bleach-sensitive point-of-care device
16. Efficient reporting of the estimated glomerular filtration rate without height in pediatric patients with cancer
17. Evaluation of thyroid test utilization through analysis of population-level data
18. Relation of serum γ-glutamyl transferase activity with copper in an adult population
19. Impact of a single oral dose of 100,000 IU vitamin D3 on profiles of serum 25(OH)D3 and its metabolites 24,25(OH)₂D3, 3-epi-25(OH)D3, and 1,25(OH)₂D3 in adults with vitamin D insufficiency
20. Automated antinuclear immunofluorescence antibody analysis is a reliable approach in routine clinical laboratories
21. Infrared analyzers for breast milk analysis: fat levels can influence the accuracy of protein measurements
22. Hematology and Coagulation
23. A new approach to define acceptance limits for hematology in external quality assessment schemes
24. The effects of transport by car on coagulation tests
25. Combined measurement of factor XIII and D-dimer is helpful for differential diagnosis in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism
26. Reference Values and Biological Variations
27. Influence of age, gender and body mass index on late-night salivary cortisol in healthy adults
28. Cancer Diagnostics
29. Assessment of real-time PCR method for detection of EGFR mutation using both supernatant and cell pellet of malignant pleural effusion samples from non-small-cell lung cancer patients
30. Detection of EGFR mutations in patients with non-small cell lung cancer by high resolution melting. Comparison with other methods
31. Predicting outcomes of EGFR-targeted therapy in non-small cell lung cancer patients using pleural effusions samples and peptide nucleic acid probe assay
32. Analytical and clinical performance of thyroglobulin autoantibody assays in thyroid cancer follow-up
33. Thyroglobulin autoantibodies before radioiodine ablation predict differentiated thyroid cancer outcome
34. Cardiovascular Diseases
35. Real life dabigatran and metabolite concentrations, focused on inter-patient variability and assay differences in patients with atrial fibrillation
36. Infectious Diseases
37. HIV avidity index performance using a modified fourth-generation immunoassay to detect recent HIV infections
38. Letters to the Editor
39. Effect of age on serum prostate-specific antigen in women
40. Falsely elevated thyroid-stimulating hormone value due to anti-ruthenium antibodies in a patient with primary hypothyroidism: a case report
41. High titers of anti-infliximab antibody do not interfere with Abbott immunoassays
42. Extraordinarily elevated serum CA19-9 in a patient with posterior mediastinum cyst: a case report
43. Low levels of 25-OH vitamin D in women with endometriosis and associated pelvic pain
44. Evaluation of serum cortisol biological variation in the evening withdrawal
45. Distinction between urine crystals by automated urine analyzer SediMAX conTRUST is specific but lacks sensitivity
46. Impact of heat-inactivation on anti-Toxoplasma IgM antibody levels