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Pre-analytical phase in clinical chemistry laboratory [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Scientific Research, 2016 The laboratory testing process is divided into the pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical phases. For obtaining reliable test results, the prevention and detection of errors at all steps is required.
Neogi SS, Mehndiratta M, Gupta S, Puri D
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Harmonization of pre-analytical quality indicators [PDF]
Biochemia Medica, 2014 Quality indicators (QIs) measure the extent to which set targets are attained and provide a quantitative basis for achieving improvement in care and, in particular, laboratory services. A body of evidence collected in recent years has demonstrated that most errors fall outside the analytical phase, while the pre- and post-analytical steps have been ...
PLEBANI, MARIO +3 more
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Quality indicators of the pre-analytical phase [PDF]
Journal of Medical Biochemistry, 2012 Quality indicators are tools that allow the quantification of quality in each of the segments of health care in comparison with selected criteria. They can be defined as an objective measure used to assess the critical health care segments such as, for ...
Majkić-Singh Nada, Šumarac Zorica
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THE PRE-ANALYTICAL CHALLENGES OF ROUTINE URINALYSIS
Acta Clinica Belgica, 2010 An effective diagnostic strategy for urinalysis should be based on standard procedures for collection, transport, sample preparation and analysis. In view of a better reproducibility of the analyses, the pre-analytical requirements become stricter. Various sample methods can cause significant pre-analytical errors.
A, Coppens, M, Speeckaert, J, Delanghe
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Review of Pre-Analytical Errors in Oral Glucose Tolerance Testing in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2018 Background: The pre-pre-analytical and pre-analytical phases form a major chunk of the errors in a laboratory. The process has taken into consideration a very common procedure which is the oral glucose tolerance test to identify the pre-pre-analytical ...
Rachita Nanda +3 more
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Pre-analytics and tumor heterogeneity
New Biotechnology, 2020 When dealing with pre-analytics for tissues, it is often that case that tissue heterogeneity, and particularly tumor heterogeneity, is not taken into account as a preliminary condition for obtaining reproducible results in molecular analysis at the diagnostics and clinical research levels.
Bonin S., Stanta G.
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Quality audit of haematology laboratory: Challenges and opportunities
Advances in Human Biology, 2023 Introduction: Laboratory results play an essential role in both medical decision-making and inpatient management. In many clinical scenarios, laboratory test results are essential to make the right diagnosis or choosing the suitable treatment regimen ...
K Sudarshan +3 more
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Effects of sample handling on the stability of interleukin-6 in patients with breast neoplasms
Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2022 To investigate the influence of preservation methods and processes on the plasma interleukin-6 (IL-6) stability.
Wang Yunxiu +13 more
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Epigenetics, 2022 The detection of methylated templates in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) is increasingly recognized as a valuable, non-invasive tool for diagnosis, monitoring and prognostication in a range of medical contexts.
Daniel RA Cox +6 more
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, 2023 The field of analytical chemistry has been significantly advanced by the availability of state-of-the-art instrumentation, allowing for the development of novel applications in this field. However, in many cases, the direct interpretation of the recorded
Owen, S +4 more
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