Frontmatter

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Blood biomarkers in neurology: “a call to arms” for laboratory professionals
4. Reviews
5. Diagnostic accuracy of glycated hemoglobin for gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis
6. Laboratory medicine: health evaluation in elite athletes
7. Prostate cancer screening: guidelines review and laboratory issues
8. Opinion Papers
9. Extra-analytical sources of uncertainty: which ones really matter?
10. Benefits and harms of wellness initiatives
11. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
12. Analytical and clinical validation of a novel amplicon-based NGS assay for the evaluation of circulating tumor DNA in metastatic colorectal cancer patients
13. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
14. Pre-analytical practices for routine coagulation tests in European laboratories. A collaborative study from the European Organisation for External Quality Assurance Providers in Laboratory Medicine (EQALM)
15. Preanalytical robustness of blood collection tubes with RNA stabilizers
16. Continual improvement of the pre-analytical process in a public health laboratory with quality indicators-based risk management
17. Comparison of six commercial serum exosome isolation methods suitable for clinical laboratories. Effect in cytokine analysis
18. A multicenter study to evaluate harmonization of assays for N-terminal propeptide of type I procollagen (PINP): a report from the IFCC-IOF Joint Committee for Bone Metabolism
19. Correlations between serum and CSF pNfH levels in ALS, FTD and controls: a comparison of three analytical approaches
20. Dynamics of extracellular matrix proteins in cerebrospinal fluid and serum and their relation to clinical outcome in human traumatic brain injury
21. Free light chains in the cerebrospinal fluid. Comparison of different methods to determine intrathecal synthesis
22. Reference Values and Biological Variations
23. Reference interval by the indirect approach of serum thyrotropin (TSH) in a Mediterranean adult population and the association with age and gender
24. Next-generation reference intervals for pediatric hematology
25. Hematology and Coagulation
26. Preliminary evaluation of a new flow cytometry method for the routine hematology workflow
27. Diabetes
28. Trueness assessment of HbA_1c routine assays: are processed EQA materials up to the job?
29. Infectious Diseases
30. Utility of procalcitonin for differentiating cryptogenic organising pneumonia from community-acquired pneumonia
31. A high C-reactive protein/procalcitonin ratio predicts Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection
32. Letters to the Editor
33. Evaluation of reference change values for a hs-cTnI immunoassay using both plasma samples of healthy subjects and patients and quality control samples
34. Outlier removal methods for skewed data: impact on age-specific high-sensitive cardiac troponin T 99th percentiles
35. Comparison of precision and operational performances across six immunochemistry analyzers
36. Evaluation of the possible interference of abiraterone therapy on testosterone immunoassay
37. Erroneous thyroid and steroid hormones profile due to anti-streptavidin antibodies
38. Reference values for 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D and the 25-hydroxyvitamin D/24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D ratio
39. Pre-analytical error in a hematology laboratory: an avoidable cause of compromised quality in reporting
40. Stability of tubular damage markers epidermal growth factor and heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor in urine
41. Blood from heparin tubes is an acceptable alternative to assess hematocrit determination