Clinical Laboratory Techniques

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "I wish I had seen this test result earlier!": Dissatisfaction with test result management systems in primary care. 
  • A Cumulative Deficit Laboratory Test-based Frailty Index: Personal and Neighborhood Associations. 
  • A Multidisciplinary Housestaff-Led Initiative to Safely Reduce Daily Laboratory Testing. 
  • A Pediatric Infectious Diseases Perspective of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Children. 
  • A diagnosis of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia with combined clinical and laboratory methods in cardiothoracic surgical intensive care unit patients. 
  • A high-throughput neutralizing antibody assay for COVID-19 diagnosis and vaccine evaluation. 
  • A longitudinal replicate study of immunosuppressive drugs: a College of American Pathologists study. 
  • A novel method for teaching key steps of strabismus surgery in the wet lab. 
  • A trial of two strategies to modify the test-ordering behavior of medical residents. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria Fever Without Source or Unknown Origin-Child. 
  • Access to lifesaving medical resources for African countries: COVID-19 testing and response, ethics, and politics. 
  • Algorithm for the early diagnosis and treatment of patients with cross reactive immunologic material-negative classic infantile pompe disease: a step towards improving the efficacy of ERT. 
  • An overview on assessing agreement with continuous measurements. 
  • Analytic bias of thyroid function tests: analysis of a College of American Pathologists fresh frozen serum pool by 3900 clinical laboratories. 
  • Appropriate baseline laboratory testing following ACEI or ARB initiation by Medicare FFS beneficiaries. 
  • Association of patient and physician characteristics with follow-up of abnormal laboratory results. 
  • COVID-19 Testing, Personal Protective Equipment, and Staffing Strategies Vary at Obstetrics Centers across the Country. 
  • COVID19 antibody detection using lateral flow assay tests in a cohort of convalescent plasma donors. 
  • Chance-corrected sensitivity and specificity for three-zone diagnostic tests. 
  • Clinical Utility of Circulating Tumor Cells in Advanced Prostate Cancer. 
  • Clinical laboratory evaluation of the American optical Bilirubinometer. 
  • Clinical microbiology in developing countries. 
  • Coated platelet assay: a feasible approach to a complicated science. 
  • Colorectal testing utilization and payments in a large cohort of commercially insured US adults. 
  • Community Obstetrical Units Less Likely than Academic Units to Have Universal COVID-19 Testing. 
  • Comparison of fresh frozen serum to proficiency testing material in College of American Pathologists surveys: alpha-fetoprotein, carcinoembryonic antigen, human chorionic gonadotropin, and prostate-specific antigen. 
  • Comparison of fresh frozen serum to traditional proficiency testing material in a College of American Pathologists survey for ferritin, folate, and vitamin B12. 
  • Comparison of pooled fresh frozen serum to proficiency testing material in College of American Pathologists surveys: cortisol and immunoglobulin E. 
  • Cost of residents' decisions on actual patients and in simulated encounters. 
  • Covid-19: re-opening universities is high risk. 
  • Creating ED point-of-care testing protocols: an expert panel and Delphi process. 
  • Creatinine measurement: state of the art in accuracy and interlaboratory harmonization. 
  • Cyclophosphamide therapy of medulloblastoma: from the laboratory to the clinic and back again (and again and again). 
  • D-dimer antigen: current concepts and future prospects. 
  • Detecting respiratory viruses in asymptomatic children. 
  • Diagnosis and testing in bronchiolitis: a systematic review. 
  • Diagnosis of anaerobic infections--communication between the laboratory and the clinic. 
  • Diagnostic Tools for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Comparing CT and RT-PCR Viral Nucleic Acid Testing. 
  • Diagnostic laboratory immunology: a subspecialty that encompasses clinical as well as laboratory immunology. 
  • Digital technology and COVID-19. 
  • Direct Estimation of Sensitivity of Plasmodium falciparum Rapid Diagnostic Test for Active Case Detection in a High-Transmission Community Setting. 
  • Discriminating Bacterial and Viral Infection Using a Rapid Host Gene Expression Test. 
  • Does this patient have influenza? 
  • Echocardiographic imaging in clinical trials: American Society of Echocardiography Standards for echocardiography core laboratories: endorsed by the American College of Cardiology Foundation. 
  • Effectiveness of automatic diagnostic test result feedback on outpatient laboratory and radiology testing in veterans. A controlled trial. 
  • Electronic results management in pediatric ambulatory care: qualitative assessment. 
  • Evaluation and recommendations on good clinical laboratory practice guidelines for phase I-III clinical trials. 
  • Evaluation of a digital microfluidic real-time PCR platform to detect DNA of Candida albicans in blood. 
  • Evaluation of serum protein profiling by surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry for the detection of prostate cancer: I. Assessment of platform reproducibility. 
  • Evaluation of the Clinical Performance of 7 Serological Assays for SARS-CoV-2 for Use in Clinical Laboratories. 
  • Evidence-based approach to the maintenance of laboratory and medical equipment in resource-poor settings. 
  • Examination without interview. Learning about the physical examination as a diagnostic tool. 
  • Feasibility and willingness-to-pay for integrated community-based tuberculosis testing. 
  • Fulminant demyelinating neuropathy mimicking cerebral death. 
  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes. 
  • High-throughput pooling and real-time PCR-based strategy for malaria detection. 
  • Impact of Uniform Methods on Interlaboratory Antibody Titration Variability: Antibody Titration and Uniform Methods. 
  • Implementation of a Pooled Surveillance Testing Program for Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections on a College Campus - Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, August 2-October 11, 2020. 
  • Intensive Training and Real-Time Quality Control by a Physiology Core Laboratory: Lessons From DEFINE-PCI. 
  • Interlaboratory variation in oxygen tension measurement by Eppendorf "Histograph" and comparison with hypoxic marker. 
  • Intermediate, indeterminate, and uninterpretable diagnostic test results. 
  • International Bullous Diseases Group: consensus on diagnostic criteria for epidermolysis bullosa acquisita. 
  • Issues in cerebrospinal fluid management. CSF Venereal Disease Research Laboratory testing. 
  • Lab-based and diagnosis-based chronic kidney disease recognition and staging concordance. 
  • Laboratory Monitoring and Transfusion Guidelines to Influence Care in Patients Undergoing Multilevel Spinal Fusion Surgery. 
  • Laboratory diagnosis of creatine deficiency syndromes: a technical standard and guideline of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. 
  • Laboratory diagnosis of factitious disorder: a systematic review of tools useful in the diagnosis of Munchausen's syndrome. 
  • Lack of Concordance Between Local Investigators, Angiographic Core Laboratory, and Clinical Event Committee in the Assessment of Stent Thrombosis: Results From the TRACER Angiographic Substudy. 
  • Lockdown During COVID-19: The Greek Success. 
  • Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty: Patient Evaluation and Treatment. 
  • Methods for a prompt and reliable laboratory diagnosis of Pompe disease: report from an international consensus meeting. 
  • Minimal data reporting standards for serological testing for histocompatibility. 
  • Multiplex PCR to diagnose bloodstream infections in patients admitted from the emergency department with sepsis. 
  • Multiplex detection of breast cancer biomarkers using plasmonic molecular sentinel nanoprobes 
  • National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines: Clinical characteristics and utilization of biochemical markers in acute coronary syndromes. 
  • National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry and IFCC Committee for Standardization of Markers of Cardiac Damage Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines: Analytical issues for biochemical markers of acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Nurse and physician perspectives on patients with cancer having online access to their laboratory results. 
  • Outpatient diagnostic errors: unrecognized hyperglycemia. 
  • Pathology and laboratory medicine. 
  • Patient safety concerns arising from test results that return after hospital discharge. 
  • Pediatric human immunodeficiency virus infection and its cutaneous manifestations. 
  • Performance of serum-supplemented and serum-free media in IFNgamma Elispot Assays for human T cells. 
  • Physician responses to abnormal laboratory data. 
  • Practice patterns in percutaneous image-guided intraabdominal abscess drainage: survey of academic and private practice centers. 
  • Routine laboratory results and thirty day and one-year mortality risk following hospitalization with acute decompensated heart failure. 
  • Scientific and Standardization Committee communication: Clinical guidance on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of venous thromboembolism in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. 
  • Screening for Pompe disease using a rapid dried blood spot method: experience of a clinical diagnostic laboratory. 
  • Screening for cervical cancer: a modeling study for the US Preventive Services Task Force. 
  • Sharing electronic laboratory results in a patient portal--a feasibility pilot. 
  • Supporting patient care beyond the clinical encounter: three informatics innovations from partners health care. 
  • Total long-term within-laboratory precision of cortisol, ferritin, thyroxine, free thyroxine, and thyroid-stimulating hormone assays based on a College of American Pathologists fresh frozen serum study: do available methods meet medical needs for precision? 
  • Total, ultrafiltrable, dialysable and ionised calcium measurements in randomly selected samples compared with clinical diagnoses. 
  • Undocumented U.S. Immigrants and Covid-19. 
  • Universal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Testing for Obstetric Inpatient Units Across the United States. 
  • Use of fertility preservation services in female reproductive-aged cancer patients. 
  • Use of on-site testing for drugs of abuse. 
  • Utilization of hospital services: the roles of teaching, case mix, and reimbursement. 
  • Virology, Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Control of COVID-19. 
  • When to Operate, Hesitate and Reintegrate: Society of Gynecologic Oncology Surgical Considerations during the COVID-19 Pandemic.