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Growth of medical laboratory work during 1920-2000.

The volume of work carried out by pathology departments has grown exponentially since they were first opened, and this is likely to continue to the end of the century. Computer diagnosis may modify the process.

Clinical Laboratory Techniques↗

A biochemical and clinical comparison of two commercially available creatine kinase iso-enzyme MB assay kits suitable for use in the routine medical laboratory.

Two methods for the measurement of plasma creatine kinase MB (CK-MB) activity were compared for analytical performance, cost, practicality, and diagnostic correlation with clinical and electrocardiographic findings in patients admitted to the coronary care unit of a district general hospital. The methods were column chromatography and immunoinhibition. Both methods were found acceptable, and the method to be adopted would depend on the staff arrangements and resources available in the laboratory.

Chromatography↗

Recommendations of the German Working Group on medical laboratory testing (AML) on the introduction and quality assurance of procedures for Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) in hospitals.

The following recommendations were drawn up by the Working Group "Point-of-Care Testing" of the DGKC and DGLM which was set up in 1997. This first document from the Working Group sets out the principles which should be observed when introducing point-of-care testing. These general recommendations are to be followed by further specific recommendations on individual procedures or groups of procedures, e.g. blood glucose, electrolytes in whole blood, blood gases, coagulation, toxicology, quality control and others, which will be drawn up by experts at the suggestion of the Working Group.

Cost-Benefit Analysis↗

A medical laboratory in Saudi Arabia.

The chairman of this department of pathology and laboratory medicine describes a laboratory that "rose from the desert" eight years ago and today impresses visiting officials from all parts of the world.

Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499↗