Laboratory Applications in Clinical Pediatrics

Quality Costs in Clinical Laboratory

Introduction: The concept quality cost for all clinical laboratories perform routine and specialized tests of any size and scope has many applications. Familiarity of managers and employees of clinical laboratories with quality cost concept prevent wasted resources and offers laboratory services with high quality to physicians, patients, and other internal and external customers with reasonable...

Clinical trials in pediatrics

Anne B Chang Author for correspondence: Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute, Queensland University of Technology, Herston, QLD, Australia and Child Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Tiwi, NT, Australia and Queensland Children’s Respiratory Centre, Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Tel.: +61 7 3636 5270 Fax: +61 7...

Clinical Pediatrics

Platelet indices: laboratory and clinical applications

Platelet parameters, which include the plateletcrit (PCT), platelet distribution width (PDW) and mean platelet volume (MPV), have been available in the laboratory routine using blood cell counters for several years. Although many studies have attempted to establish clinical correlations to support their application, these parameters are still not used much owing to methodological problems which...

Clinical laboratory applications of monoclonal antibodies.

Monoclonal antibody (MAb) technology is well recognized as a significant development for producing specific serologic reagents to a wide variety of antigens in unlimited amounts. These reagents have provided the means for developing a number of highly specific and reproducible immunological assays for rapid and accurate diagnosis of an extensive list of diseases, including infectious diseases. ...