Towards Better Test Utilization - Strategies to Improve Physician Ordering and Their Impact on Patient Outcomes [0.03%]
提高检验利用效率——改进医师开单行为的策略及其对患者的影响
Danielle B Freedman
Danielle B Freedman
Laboratory medicine is the single highest volume medical activity in healthcare and demand for laboratory testing is increasing disproportionately to medical activity. It has been estimated that $6.8 billion of medical care in the US involv...
Mario Plebani
Mario Plebani
While the frequency of laboratory errors varies greatly, depending on the study design and steps of the total testing process (TTP) investigated, a series of papers published in the last two decades drew the attention of laboratory professi...
Kallikrein-Related Peptidases in Prostate Cancer: From Molecular Function to Clinical Application [0.03%]
前列腺癌中的相关激肽释放酶：从分子功能到临床应用
Ruth A Fuhrman-Luck,Daniela Loessner,Judith A Clements
Ruth A Fuhrman-Luck
Prostate cancer is a leading contributor to male cancer-related deaths worldwide. Kallikrein-related peptidases (KLKs) are serine proteases that exhibit deregulated expression in prostate cancer, with KLK3, or prostate specific antigen (PSA...
Edgard Delving,Tahir S Pillay,Anthony Newman
Edgard Delving
Precise, accurate and clear writing is essential for communicating in health sciences, as publication is an important component in the university criteria for academic promotion and in obtaining funding to support research. In spite of this...
Gábor L Kovács
Gábor L Kovács
The principle of open-access (OA) publishing is more and more prevalent also on the field of laboratory medicine. Open-access journals (OAJs) are available online to the reader usually without financial, legal, or technical barriers. Some a...
Ethics in Online Publications [0.03%]
网络出版伦理学
Peter Vervaart
Peter Vervaart
Journals have been publishing the results of scientific investigations since the founding of Philosophical Transactions in 1665. Since then we have witnessed a massive expansion in the number of journals to the point that there are now appr...
Peer Review in Scientific Publications: Benefits, Critiques, & A Survival Guide [0.03%]
科技论文同行评审的好处、弊端及生存指南
Jacalyn Kelly,Tara Sadeghieh,Khosrow Adeli
Jacalyn Kelly
Peer review has been defined as a process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. It functions to encourage authors to meet the accepted high standards of thei...
Koistinen Hannu,Mattsson Johanna,Stenman Ulf-Håkan
Koistinen Hannu
Alternative treatments are urgently needed for prostate cancer, especially to address the aggressive metastatic castration-resistant disease. Proteolytic enzymes are involved in cancer growth and progression. The prostate produces several p...
Puacz Elżbieta,Glusiec Waldemar,Madej-Czerwonka Barbara
Puacz Elżbieta
Along with the development of medicine, increasingly significant role has been played by the laboratory diagnostics. For over ten years the profession of the medical laboratory specialist has been regarded in Poland as the autonomous medica...
Primary Hypoparathyroidism Misdiagnosed as Epilepsy - A Case Report: Seizures, hypocalcemia and cerebral calcification [0.03%]
原发性甲状旁腺功能减退被误诊为癫痫一例报告：低钙抽搐伴脑钙化
Lodh Moushumi,Mukhopadhyay Rajarshi
Lodh Moushumi
Absent or inappropriately low intact parathyroid hormone along with hypocalcemia is the diagnostic criterion of hypoparathyroidism. Clinically, hypoparathyroidism manifests predominantly as neuromuscular dysfunction caused by hypocalcemia. ...
Case Reports
EJIFCC. 2014 Sep 4;25(2):195-8. DOI: 2014