Endogenous Interferences in Clinical Laboratory Tests : : Icteric, Lipemic and Turbid Samples / / Martin H. Kroll, Christopher R. McCudden.

The goal of clinical laboratories is to produce accurate information for clinical decision making in medicine. More than half of the medical decisions made depend on clinical laboratory tests. Patient safety represents an important and critical problem for laboratories. They need to assure that the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Patient Safety ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (143 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1 Accuracy Goals for Laboratory Tests
  • 2 Nature of Interferences
  • 3 The Nature of Icteric Interference
  • 4 The Nature of Lipemic and Turbidity Interferences
  • 5 Measurement of Interference
  • 6 Origin of Icteric Samples
  • 7 Impact of Icterus
  • 8 Origin of Lipemia and Turbidity
  • 9 Impact of Lipemia/Turbidity
  • 10 Endogenous Interferences in Clinical Laboratory Tests: Icteric, Lipemic and Turbid Samples
  • 11 Reporting of Results
  • 12 Analyte-dependent Interference
  • Index