The troika of pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical testing phases in laboratory
medicine is well known to all first year clinical laboratorians as the phases of lab testing that …

Background The innovation pathway by which a newly discovered biomarker is developed
into a medical test and used in routine clinical practice comprises a number of different …

Significant advances have been achieved over the past two decades in the comprehension
and reduction of errors in medicine. One of the most remarkable advances is the evidence …

Laboratory diagnostics is a fast-growing field, which provides a substantial contribution to
the clinical decision making by supporting prevention, diagnosis, and therapeutic monitoring …

Quality in healthcare is ideally at an optimal benchmark, but must be at least above the
minimal standards for care. While laboratory quality is ideally judged in clinical terms …

Although the measures to improve quality in the clinical laboratory have been enormous in
the past years, not least of all due to the introduction of the ISO standards 15189 and 17025 …

Guest Editorial responding physicians in the survey said it would be useful to ask a lab
professional to help them with their uncertainty in interpreting test results, and only 6 …

Laboratory tests and the principles on which they are based are a major focus of the
discipline of laboratory medicine. The value of laboratory testing to patient care is evident …

Appropriateness of diagnostic testing can be conventionally described as prescription of the
right test, using the right method, at the right time, to the right patient, with the right costs and …

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been driven by the need to cope with information
overload, by cost-control, and by a public impatient for the best in diagnostics and treatment …