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Accurate Results in the Clinical Laboratory
A Guide to Error Detection and Correction
Practical, easy-to-use guide on interference issues across all types of clinical laboratory tests --- for both clinicians and clinical laboratory scientists
Amitava Dasgupta (Edited by), Jorge L. Sepulveda (Edited by)
9780128137765
Hardback, published 23 July 2019
510 pages
27.6 x 21.5 x 3 cm, 1.56 kg
Praise for the first edition: "This would be a must for the laboratory medicine resident who has to explain why results don't correlate with clinical disease." --Doody.com, 2013 "It will be of great value to all laboratory directors and trainees in laboratory medicine and the technical staff who perform the tests in daily practice." --Donald Young, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Approx.492 pages
Section I: Sources of errors in clinical laboratories: An overview 1. Variation, errors, and quality in the clinical laboratory 2. Errors in patient preparation, specimen collection, anticoagulant and preservative use: how to avoid such pre-analytical errors 3. Sample processing and specimen misidentification issues: major sources of pre-analytical errors 4. Effect of patient-related factors on clinical laboratory test results 5. Interferences of hemolysis, lipemia and high bilirubin on laboratory tests 6. Immunoassay design 7. Overview of other sources of interferences in immunoassays: prozone effect and interferences from heterophilic antibodies and autoantibodies 8. Biotin interference in clinical laboratory tests: sporadic problem or a serious clinical issue? Section II: Sources of errors in clinical chemistry laboratory 9. Challenges in routine clinical chemistry testing analysis of small molecules 10. Challenges in routine clinical chemistry analysis: proteins and enzymes 11. Challenges in endocrinology testing 12. Pitfalls in testing for common tumor markers Section III: Sources of errors in therapeutic drug monitoring and toxicology 13. Issues of interferences in therapeutic drug monitoring 14. Limitations of immunoassays for screening of drugs of abuse in urine: issues of false positive and false negative results 15. Challenges in confirmation testing for drugs of abuse 16. Issues of false negative results in toxicology: difficult in detecting certain drugs and issues with detection of synthetic cathinone (bath salts), synthetic cannabinoids (spice), and other new psychoactive substances 17. Ethanol determination using automated analyzers: limitations and pitfalls Section IV: Herbal medicines and laboratory testings 18. Effects of herbal supplements on clinical laboratory test results Section V: Sources of errors in immunology laboratory 19. Critical issues in hemoglobinopathy detection and serology testing for HIV and hepatitis infections 20. Sources of errors in immunology and serology testing Section VI: Sources of errors in molecular, genetic and related testings 21. Sources of error in molecular diagnostic analyses 22. Molecular testing for targeted therapies and pharmacogenomics 23. Challenges and sources of inaccuracy in biochemical genetics testing Section VII: Sources of errors in microbiology testings 24. Sources of pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical errors in the microbiology laboratory Section VIII: Sources of errors in hematology and coagulation testings 25. Sources of errors in hematology testing 26. Sources of errors in coagulation testing 27. Sources of errors in flow cytometry Section IX: Sources of errors in transfusion medicine 28. Interferences in blood bank testing 29. Errors and adverse effects of blood transfusion 30. Methodological issues in point of care testing devices 31. Special concern: sources of inaccuracy in breath alcohol analysis
Subject Areas: Life sciences: general issues [PSA]
