Nilima Barman,Marium Salwa,Debabrata Ghosh et al.
Nilima Barman et al.
Background: Zinc is an essential trace element that has an enormous role in regulation of physiological processes whose deviant value leads to malfunction in the body. So, establishing a country specific reference value i...
Artificial Intelligence-Powered Search Tools and Resources in the Fight Against COVID-19 [0.03%]
抗击COVID-19的人工智能搜索工具与资源
Larry J Kricka,Sergei Polevikov,Jason Y Park et al.
Larry J Kricka et al.
Emerging technologies are set to play an important role in our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper explores three prominent initiatives: COVID-19 focused datasets (e.g., CORD-19); Artificial intelligence-powered search tools (e.g....
Damien Gruson,Gabriel Ko,David Luu
Damien Gruson
Methods for Hemolysis Interference Study in Laboratory Medicine - A Critical Review [0.03%]
实验室医学中溶血干扰研究方法批判性回顾
Fernando Marques-Garcia
Fernando Marques-Garcia
Hemolysis represents an important source of error associated with the pre-analytical phase. Improving the protocols for detection, measurement, management of the parameters affected by the interference, and differentiation between hemolysis...
Review
EJIFCC. 2020 Mar 20;31(1):85-97. DOI: 2020
Causes of Preanalytical Interferences on Laboratory Immunoassays - A Critical Review [0.03%]
实验室免疫分析前干扰的原因-批判性回顾
Beatrice Caruso,Chiara Bovo,Gian Cesare Guidi
Beatrice Caruso
The immunoassays methods need avoiding interferences that can influence result interpretation. Main sources of interference arise from either patient status, preparation and physiology or laboratory process and procedures. The aim of this n...
Review
EJIFCC. 2020 Mar 20;31(1):70-84. DOI: 2020
Pseudothrombocytopenia by ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid can jeopardize patient safety - report [0.03%]
乙二胺四乙酸引起的假性血小板减少可能危害患者安全——病例报告
Cristina Collazo Abal,Leticia Rodríguez Calviño,Laura Rollán Manso et al.
Cristina Collazo Abal et al.
Pseudothrombocytopenia by ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) is an infrequent phenomenon of in vitro platelet agglutination due to the presence of antiplatelet autoantibodies. It has no clinical significance, but misdiagnosis may lead t...
Case Reports
EJIFCC. 2020 Mar 20;31(1):65-69. DOI: 2020
Samuel Salazar-García,Eunice Lares-Villaseñor,Abraham Bárcenas-Morales et al.
Samuel Salazar-García et al.
Urinalysis is one of the most important tests in the clinical laboratory. In this study we assessed the use of chemical preservative in urinalysis during preanalytical phase. Fifty first morning urine samples from medical laboratory patient...
Sample Management: Stability of Plasma and Serum on Different Storage Conditions [0.03%]
样本管理：不同储存条件下的稳定性研究
Carlos Fernando Yauli Flores,Ángela de Las Mercedes Hurtado Pineda,Victoria Maritza Cevallos Bonilla et al.
Carlos Fernando Yauli Flores et al.
Background and objective: The analytes stability on serum and plasma are critical for clinical laboratory, especially if there is a delay in their processing or if they need to be stored for future research. The objective...
Can chewing gum be another source of preanalytical variability in fasting outpatients? [0.03%]
嚼口香糖会成为门诊空腹患者检验结果的一个前分析变量吗？
Ricardas Stonys,Valdas Banys,Dalius Vitkus et al.
Ricardas Stonys et al.
Introduction: In the daily laboratory practice, there are patients coming to blood collection sites chewing sugar-free gum, considering it irrelevant to laboratory tests. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether a su...
Challenges in Preanalytical Phase of Laboratory Medicine: Rate of Blood Sample Nonconformity in a Tertiary Care Hospital [0.03%]
三级医疗实验室血液样本不合格率及其他前分析问题挑战探究
Nusrat Alavi,Sana Haseeb Khan,Asma Saadia et al.
Nusrat Alavi et al.
Objective: To evaluate the major causes of preanalytical errors in medical laboratory of a tertiary care hospital. Methods: It was a re...