Effect of various blood collection tubes on serum lithium and other electrolytes: our perspective from a tertiary healthcare institute

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1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Standardization and harmonization in laboratory medicine: not only for clinical chemistry measurands
4. Mini Review
5. The effect of the immunoassay curve fitting routine on bias in troponin
6. Opinion Papers
7. An overview of the most important preanalytical factors influencing the clinical performance of SARS-CoV-2 antigen rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDTs)
8. Time to address quality control processes applied to antibody testing for infectious diseases
9. Perspectives
10. Definition and application of performance specifications for measurement uncertainty of 23 common laboratory tests: linking theory to daily practice
11. The gaps between the new EU legislation on in vitro diagnostics and the on-the-ground reality
12. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
13. Second-generation Elecsys cerebrospinal fluid immunoassays aid diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s disease
14. Evaluation of the interchangeability between the new fully-automated affinity chrome-mediated immunoassay (ACMIA) and the Quantitative Microsphere System (QMS) with a CE-IVD-certified LC-MS/MS assay for therapeutic drug monitoring of everolimus after solid organ transplantation
15. Quantitative detection of anti-PLA2R antibodies targeting different epitopes and its clinical application in primary membranous nephropathy
16. Reference Values and Biological Variations
17. A zlog-based algorithm and tool for plausibility checks of reference intervals
18. Harmonization of indirect reference intervals calculation by the Bhattacharya method
19. Red blood cell parameters in early childhood: a prospective cohort study
20. Cancer Diagnostics
21. Association of circulating free and total oxysterols in breast cancer patients
22. Effect of short-term storage of blood samples on gene expression in lung cancer patients
23. Infectious Diseases
24. Operation Moonshot: rapid translation of a SARS-CoV-2 targeted peptide immunoaffinity liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry test from research into routine clinical use
25. Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Italy in newborn dried blood spots
26. Positivization time of a COVID-19 rapid antigen self-test predicts SARS-CoV-2 viral load: a proof of concept
27. New insights into SARS-CoV-2 Lumipulse G salivary antigen testing: accuracy, safety and short TAT enhance surveillance
28. Preanalytical stability of SARS-CoV-2 anti-nucleocapsid antibodies
29. Prognostic value of procalcitonin in cancer patients with coronavirus disease 2019
30. 24/7 workflow for bloodstream infection diagnostics in microbiology laboratories: the first step to improve clinical management
31. Diagnostic performance of machine learning models using cell population data for the detection of sepsis: a comparative study
32. Diagnostic value of procalcitonin, hypersensitive C-reactive protein and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio for bloodstream infections in pediatric tumor patients
33. Letters to the Editor
34. Pseudohyponatremia: interference of hyperglycemia on indirect potentiometry
35. Ligand binding assay-related underestimation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in pregnant women exaggerates the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency
36. Urokinase-type plasminogen activator soluble receptor (suPAR) assay in clinical routine: evaluation one year after its introduction in the high automation corelab of the A. Gemelli hospital
37. Is this a true lambda free light chain?
38. Effect of various blood collection tubes on serum lithium and other electrolytes: our perspective from a tertiary healthcare institute