molecular diagnostic methods have played and continuing to have a critical role in clinical laboratories in recent years. therefore, standardization is an evolutionary process that needs to be upgrade with increasing scientific knowledge, improvement of the instruments and techniques. the aim of this study was to design a quality assurance program in order to have similar conditions for all med...

Polymorbid patients, diverse diagnostic and therapeutic options, more complex hospital structures, financial incentives, benchmarking, as well as perceptional and societal changes put pressure on medical doctors, specifically if medical errors surface. This is particularly true for the emergency department setting, where patients face delayed or erroneous initial diagnostic or therapeutic measu...

* '-77 Conttrol of Infectious diseases in developing countries is essential if social and economic progress is to be made. Accurate, *definitive microbiological laboratory data Is a prerequisite for Infectious disease control. Medical laboratory services must become available to the people, especially children,, even-though the majority live in rural environments. Rapid microbiological diagnost...

Clinical databases have been developed in recent years especially during the course of all medical concerns including laboratory results. The information produced by the diagnostic laboratories have great impact on health care system with various secondary uses. These uses are sometimes as publishing new extracted information of laboratory reports which have been widely applied in the scientifi...

Prolactin in Human Saliva, Jos H.H. Thijssen, Stephanie H.M. Van Goozen, Herman Van Engeland, Luz M.P. Matute, and Marinus A. Blankenstein ( Endocrinological Laboratory, 2 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and 3 Central Diagnostic Laboratory, University Medical Center Utrecht, KC03.063.0, PO Box 85090, 3508 AB Utrecht, The Netherlands; * author for correspondence: fax 31-30-250-537...

1 Pathogen Diagnostic Center, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200025, China 2 Guangzhou Municipal Key Laboratory of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, the State key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong 510260, China 3 Institute of Life Sciences, Ji...