LABORATORY PROCEDURES FOR CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS

Roadmap for harmonization of clinical laboratory measurement procedures.

Results between different clinical laboratory measurement procedures (CLMP) should be equivalent, within clinically meaningful limits, to enable optimal use of clinical guidelines for disease diagnosis and patient management. When laboratory test results are neither standardized nor harmonized, a different numeric result may be obtained for the same clinical sample. Unfortunately, some guidelin...

An Ontology for Clinical Laboratory Standard Operating Procedures

This paper reports on a knowledge representation model, OCL-SOP, that formally defines key entities pertinent to clinical laboratory procedures. OCL-SOP provides a formal description of laboratory experimental actions, biochemical entities involved, equipment used, input and output data, and the data processing actions. We developed OCL-SOP in collaboration with domain experts. We demonstrate t...

The Case for Laboratory Developed Procedures

An explosion of knowledge and technology is revolutionizing medicine and patient care. Novel testing must be brought to the clinic with safety and accuracy, but also in a timely and cost-effective manner, so that patients can benefit and laboratories can offer testing consistent with current guidelines. Under the oversight provided by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, laboratories...

Mnemonics for endocrinologists - hyperparathyroidism.

Mnemonics are learning techniques that make for greater memorability and help improve long term memory. Commonly encountered mnemonics are usually verbal, such as an acronym, a short poem or mathematical relations for numerical data. Mnemonics may also be visual, kinesthetic or auditory. Mnemonics are based on the observation that the human mind much more easily remembers and retrieves surprisi...

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists medical guidelines for clinical practice for the management of diabetes mellitus.