The Togo national proficiency test pilot programme for basic clinical chemistry tests [PDF]
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2022 Background: A national proficiency test (PT) programme is not currently implemented in most low-income countries. However, participation in such PT programmes assists improves test performance and result accuracy. Objective: This study assessed how well
Kafui C. Kouassi +5 more
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Total Clinical Chemistry Laboratory Errors and Evaluation of the Analytical Quality Control Using Sigma Metric for Routine Clinical Chemistry Tests [PDF]
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2021 Mulugeta Teshome,1 Abebaw Worede,2 Daniel Asmelash2 1Department of Medical Laboratory, Dessie Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Dessie, Ethiopia; 2Department of Clinical Chemistry, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and ...
Teshome M, Worede A, Asmelash D
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Commonly used clinical chemistry tests as mortality predictors: Results from two large cohort studies. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundThe normal ranges for clinical chemistry tests are usually defined by cut-offs given by the distribution in healthy individuals. This approach does however not indicate if individuals outside the normal range are more prone to disease.MethodsWe
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Assessment of Coverage and Quality of Selected Clinical Chemistry Tests among Medical Laboratories of Health Facilities in Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia [PDF]
Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2019 Background. Medical laboratories play essential roles in measurement of analyte in clinical sample for the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases. Thus, data generated from the laboratory have to be reliable for which strict quality assurance is maintained.
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Prognostic Factor Predicting Severity of COVID- 19 : Narrative Review [PDF]
Reviews in Clinical Medicine, 2021 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has spread to many countries, is so severe that it progresses rapidly to acute respiratory failure. Therefore, in our paper, we aimed to describe and evaluate the most practical laboratory pro-inflammatory ...
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Intra-day changes in the levels of biochemistry parameters
International Journal of Medical Biochemistry, 2022 INTRODUCTION: People mostly live in the nonfasting state during a normal 24-h cycle. This study aims to compare the levels of 18 biochemical parameters during different hours of the day.
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African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2022 Background: Laboratories use quality control processes to monitor and evaluate analytical performance in terms of precision and bias. Sigma metrics provide an objective assessment of laboratory quality using the total allowable error as an additional ...
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Effects of antidepressants on serum concentrations of bone metabolism markers and major electrolytes in patients from routine psychiatric practice [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2017 Background/Aim. Data about effects of antidepressant on calcium, phosphorous and magnesium metabolisms are very scorce. The aim of this study was to investigate effects of antidepressants on serum concentration of bone metabolism markers and main ...
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African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2023 No abstract avilable.
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Data on the frequency and causes of icteric interference in clinical chemistry laboratory tests
Data in Brief, 2022 The presence of elevated levels of bilirubin (icterus) in serum or plasma specimens has the potential to interfere with clinical chemistry and other laboratory assays. Along with hemolysis and lipemia, icterus represents one of the most common endogenous
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