Everyday adaptability in Ghanaian hospital laboratories
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2019 Developed countries that enact laboratory standards and universal health policies have the luxury of numerous resources and technological advances to ensure an efficient diagnosis.
Ian Lichtenstein
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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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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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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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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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International Journal of Medicine and Health Development, 2022 Background: Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing has been recommended for prostate cancer screening by the World Health Organization. The combined use of total and free PSA and digital rectal examination is said to improve the sensitivity and ...
Ijeoma A Meka +5 more
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Reference materials (RMs) for analysis of the human factor II (prothrombin) gene G20210A mutation [PDF]
, 2005 The Scientific Committee of Molecular Biology Techniques (C-MbT) in Clinical Chemistry of the IFCC has initiated a joint project in co-operation with the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute of Reference Materials and Measurements to ...
Cooper, S. +20 more
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Standardization of molecular monitoring for chronic myeloid leukemia in Latin America using locally produced secondary cellular calibrators [PDF]
, 2016 Residual disease in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients undergoing therapy with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) is measured by assessing the quantity of transcripts of the BCR-ABL1 fusion gene in peripheral white blood cells. This analysis is based
Bianchini, Michele +6 more
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