Implementation of pre-labelled barcode tubes and the GeT-System in a general hospital for the exact documentation of the time of venous blood sample and improvement of sample quality

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Assuring the quality of examinations using faecal immunochemical tests for haemoglobin (FIT)
4. Review
5. Capillary electrophoresis based on nucleic acid analysis for diagnosing inherited diseases
6. Mini Reviews
7. Negative hair test result after long-term drug use. About a case involving morphine and literature review
8. Prorenin and active renin levels in paediatrics: a bioanalytical review
9. Opinion Paper
10. From therapeutic drug monitoring to total drug monitoring and drug-omics
11. Perspectives
12. The internal quality control in the traceability era
13. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
14. External quality assessment (EQA) and alternative assessment procedures (AAPs) in molecular diagnostics: findings of an international survey
15. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
16. An evaluation of ten external quality assurance scheme (EQAS) materials for the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) for haemoglobin
17. Optimizing hepcidin measurement with a proficiency test framework and standardization improvement
18. Development of a certified reference material for anti-β2-glycoprotein I IgG – commutability studies
19. Influence of patients’ clinical features at intensive care unit admission on performance of cell cycle arrest biomarkers in predicting acute kidney injury
20. Efficacy of weekly administration of cholecalciferol on parathyroid hormone in stable kidney-transplanted patients with CKD stage 1–3
21. Plasma metanephrines and prospective prediction of tumor location, size and mutation type in patients with pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma
22. Emicizumab, the factor VIII mimetic bi-specific monoclonal antibody and its measurement in plasma
23. Reference Values and Biological Variations
24. Age appropriate reference intervals for eight kidney function and injury markers in infants, children and adolescents
25. Cardiovascular Diseases
26. Comparison of acetylsalicylic acid and clopidogrel non-responsiveness assessed by light transmittance aggregometry and PFA-100^® in patients undergoing neuroendovascular procedures
27. Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) predicts short- and long-term mortality and poor neurological outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients
28. Non-lactate strong ion difference and cardiovascular, cancer and all-cause mortality
29. Infectious Diseases
30. Performance of three automated SARS-CoV-2 antibody assays and relevance of orthogonal testing algorithms
31. Development, evaluation, and validation of machine learning models for COVID-19 detection based on routine blood tests
32. Searching for a role of procalcitonin determination in COVID-19: a study on a selected cohort of hospitalized patients
33. Association of kidney function with effectiveness of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic treatment: a patient-level meta-analysis from randomized controlled trials
34. Erratum
35. Corrigendum to: The role of hyperhomocysteinemia as well as folate, vitamin B₆ and B₁₂ deficiencies in osteoporosis – a systematic review
36. Letter to the Editors
37. Harmonization of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) testing by reporting test result-specific likelihood ratios: position paper
38. Independent internal quality control (IQC) for faecal immunochemical tests (FIT) for haemoglobin: use of FIT manufacturers’ IQC for other FIT systems
39. Parallel testing of 241 clinical nasopharyngeal swabs for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus on the Cepheid Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2 and the Roche cobas SARS-CoV-2 assays
40. Sustained SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antibody levels in nonsevere COVID-19: a population-based study
41. Evidence for increased circulating procoagulant phospholipids in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and their prognostic role
42. Complete blood counts and cell population data from Sysmex XN analyser in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection
43. Macro creatine kinase in an asymptomatic patient: a case report
44. Implementation of pre-labelled barcode tubes and the GeT-System in a general hospital for the exact documentation of the time of venous blood sample and improvement of sample quality
45. Determination of free light chains: assay-dependent differences in interpretation
46. Association between SOX17, Wif-1 and RASSF1A promoter methylation status and response to chemotherapy in patients with metastatic gastric cancer
47. Effect of two organizational interventions on the frequency of haemoglobin A_1c and erythrocyte sedimentation rate testing
48. Haemoglobin A_1c determination from dried blood spots prepared with HemaSpot™ blood collection devices: comparison with fresh capillary blood
49. Stability of catecholamines in whole blood: influence of time between collection and centrifugation