What is the best external quality control sample for your laboratory?

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Cell population data: much more to explore
4. Reviews
5. Differences between high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T and I in stable populations: underlying causes and clinical implications
6. Choosing which in-hospital laboratory tests to target for intervention: a scoping review
7. Opinion Papers
8. Definitions and major prerequisites of direct and indirect approaches for estimating reference limits
9. An algorithm for PCT-guided antimicrobial therapy: a consensus statement by Japanese experts
10. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
11. The usefulness of implementing minimum retest intervals in reducing inappropriate laboratory test requests in a Dutch hospital
12. Using three external quality assurance schemes to achieve equivalent international normalized ratio results in primary and secondary healthcare
13. Optimizing the screening of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency using serum protein electrophoresis
14. Anti-Ki/anti-PA28γ autoantibodies contribute to the HEp-2 indirect immunofluorescence nuclear speckled pattern
15. Simultaneous quantification of tryptophan metabolites by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry during early human pregnancy
16. Reference Values and Biological Variations
17. Verification of sex- and age-specific reference intervals for 13 serum steroids determined by mass spectrometry: evaluation of an indirect statistical approach
18. Cancer Diagnostics
19. Mucin 13 (MUC13) as a candidate biomarker for ovarian cancer detection: potential to complement CA125 in detecting non-serous subtypes
20. Increased levels of N6-methyladenosine in peripheral blood RNA: a perspective diagnostic biomarker and therapeutic target for non-small cell lung cancer
21. Cardiovascular Diseases
22. Diagnostic utility of total NT-proBNP testing by immunoassay based on antibodies targeting glycosylation-free regions of NT-proBNP
23. Infectious Diseases
24. Serial measurement of circulating calprotectin as a prognostic biomarker in COVID-19 patients in intensive care setting
25. Evaluation of ichroma™ COVID-19 interferon gamma release assay for detection of vaccine-induced immunity in healthcare workers
26. Application of ultrasensitive assay for SARS-CoV-2 antigen in nasopharynx in the management of COVID-19 patients with comorbidities during the peak of 2022 Shanghai epidemics in a tertiary hospital
27. Developing a machine learning prediction algorithm for early differentiation of urosepsis from urinary tract infection
28. Letters to the Editor
29. A panhaemocytometric approach to COVID-19: the importance of cell population data on Sysmex XN-series analysers in severe disease
30. Critical appraisal of “choosing which in-hospital laboratory tests to target for intervention: a scoping review”
31. What is the best external quality control sample for your laboratory?
32. Pre-analytical variability of the Lumipulse immunoassay for plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease
33. Biological variation of serum iron from the European biological variation study (EuBIVAS)
34. Tube shaking and pneumatic transportation: impact on presepsin concentrations measured by both fully automated and POCT analyzers
35. Endogenous isobaric interference on serum 17 hydroxyprogesterone by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry methods
36. A simulation model for organization and management skills assessment that meets ISO 15189
37. Congress Abstracts
38. Annual meeting of the Royal Belgian Society of Laboratory Medicine: “Men’s health”