Clinical Biochemical Methods

Clinical Biochemical Methods

Evaluation of biochemical methods performance in clinical laboratories: is this performance suitable for clinical application?

Background: Clinical application of the test results are profoundly influenced by laboratory errors. Nowadays, the best way to evaluate the performance of a method is to determine its sigma scale according to total allowable error (TEa) and analytical errors, including random and systematic errors. In this study, the performance of the measuring kits for biochemical analytes belonging to Pars A...

Biochemical Methods of Synthesis

Biochemical methods in nutritional assessment.

The availability of methods for the nutritional therapy of hospital patients has caused clinicians to realize the need for reliable methods to select patients for such treatment. In the early years, following the introduction of the techniques of parenteral nutrition and enteral nutrition, the decision to use those therapies was mostly a clinical one. More recently attempts have been made to em...

Clinical and Biochemical Data

In Greece, favism is the most common type of acute haemolytic anaemia in childhood (Kattamis, unpublished). The disease seems to be restricted mainly to certain Mediterranean countries (Sardinia, Greece, and Israel, especially among Sephardic Jews); lately, it has also been described in other areas of the world (Motulsky and Stamatoyannopoulos, 1966). Many aspects of the pathogenesis of favism ...