The Togo national proficiency test pilot programme for basic clinical chemistry tests
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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Professional improvement in quality management system and good laboratory practices
Revista Electrónica Dr. Zoilo E. Marinello Vidaurreta, 2021 Background: quality management is a set of coordinated activities, as a system, to lead an organization in terms of quality.Objective: to analyze the influence of the process of professional improvement in quality management system and good laboratory ...
Cira Cecilia León-Ramentol +3 more
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Increasing proportion of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae and emergence of a MCR-1 producer through a multicentric study among hospital-based and private laboratories in Belgium from September to November 2015 [PDF]
, 2017 Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) strains have been increasingly reported in Belgium. We aimed to determine the proportion of CPE among Enterobacteriaceae isolated from hospitalised patients and community outpatients in Belgium in 2015 ...
Bauraing, Caroline +8 more
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An approach for estimating measurement uncertainty in medical laboratories using data from long-term quality control and external quality assessment schemes [PDF]
, 2017 The present study was prompted by the ISO 15189 requirements that medical laboratories should estimate measurement uncertainty (MU)
Aita, Ada +4 more
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Advances in Clinical Pathology: what is Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (HIAE) carrying out? [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo), 2005 The role of the Laboratory, in the present moment of technologicaladvancements, is most important within the concept of the “stateof the art” Medicine, however, it must be always integrated to theclinical principles of Medicine.
Jacyr Pasternak
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Invasive meningococcal disease in the Veneto region of Italy: A capture-recapture analysis for assessing the effectiveness of an integrated surveillance system [PDF]
, 2017 open8noBACKGROUND: Epidemiology of Neisseria meningitidis has been changing since the introduction of universal vaccination programmes against meningococcal serogroup C (MenC) and meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) has now become dominant.
Baldo, Vincenzo +7 more
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Barnes Hospital Bulletin [PDF]
, 1986 https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/bjc_barnes_bulletin/1243/thumbnail ...
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Toward harmonized phenotyping of human myeloid-derived suppressor cells by flow cytometry: results from an interim study [PDF]
, 2016 There is an increasing interest for monitoring circulating myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) in cancer patients, but there are also divergences in their phenotypic definition.
Brandau, Sven +10 more
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African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2023 Background: Critical value notification (CVN) entails notifying doctors or other laboratory users of aberrant laboratory results that threaten the patient’s life and of any values for which reporting delays could negatively impact the patient’s health ...
Lucius C. Imoh +5 more
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Determination of itraconazole and hydroxyitraconazole in plasma by use of liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry with on-line solid-phase extraction [PDF]
, 2003 In this paper a method for the simultaneous quantification of the anti-fungal drug itraconazole and its co-active metabolite hydroxyitraconazole in plasma employing liquid chromatography tandem-mass spectrometry and automated solid-phase extraction is ...
Schiel, Xaver +2 more
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