Impedance spectroscopy is successfully used in laboratory environments where all necessary steps are performed by specialists...
Keywords: consistency check, equivalent circuit, impedance model, ambiguity, standardization
07/2006 | tm Technisches Messen, Oldenbourg WissenschaftsverlagVarious dynamic test methods are applied in materials testing for the characterization of material properties under dynamic strain...
Keywords: rebound hardness test, grinding wheels, bursting speed, fracture mechanics, standardization
12/2006 | tm Technisches Messen, Oldenbourg WissenschaftsverlagDespite research on Virtual Reality user interfaces there exists no standard for developing 3D applications...
Keywords: user interfaces, graphical user interfaces (GUI), prototyping, standardization, virtual reality
01/2007 | it Information Technology (vormals it+ti), Oldenbourg WissenschaftsverlagObjectives: To provide an overview of trends in research, developments and implementations of the computerized patient record (CPR) of the last two years...
Keywords: Medical Records Systems, computerized; Computer security; Decision support systems, clinical; Evaluation studies; Health informatics, standardization
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerObjective: The National Cancer Institute Thesaurus is described by its authors as a biomedical vocabulary that provides consistent, unambiguous codes and definitions for concepts used in cancer research and which exhibits ontology-like properties in its construction and use...
Keywords: Ontology, medical terminology, standardization, Quality Control
01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: The exchange of medical data from research and clinical routine across institutional borders is essential to establish an integrated healthcare platform...
Keywords: Computerized Medical Records, integrated health care systems, Glaucoma, standardization, clinical document architecture
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: Our objectives were to analyze the possibility of an exchange of an entire clinical study between two different and independent study software solutions...
Keywords: standardization, Clinical Trial, Medical Informatics, metadata, CDISC
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerAn alcohol-associated change in the serum transferrin glycoform pattern, carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT), is used as a biomarker of chronic moderate to heavy alcohol consumption...
Keywords: alcohol biomarker, carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT), disialotransferrin, HPLC, standardization
04/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterThe predominant technique used to draw blood for laboratory testing is a conventional straight needle attached to an evacuated tube system...
Keywords: blood collection, butterfly device, laboratory testing, preanalytical variability, standardization
03/2005 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterDetection and quantitation of circulating tumor cells from solid epithelial tumors could become a valuable tool for therapy monitoring if the procedure can be standardized...
Keywords: circulating tumor cells, standardization, therapy monitoring
06/2005 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterThe uncertainty of the results from calibrators and controls is an important component of the overall uncertainty of the results of medical samples...
Keywords: calibration, Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), standardization, Uncertainty
10/2006 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterIn current clinical practice, plasma and blood glucose are used interchangeably with a consequent risk of clinical misinterpretation...
Keywords: activity, biosensors, glucose oxidase, hematocrit, plasma vs. whole blood, standardization, water concentration
12/2006 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterThe proposed recommendation for measuring and reporting chloride in undiluted plasma or blood by ion-selective electrodes (ISEs) will provide results that are identical to chloride concentrations measured by coulometry for standardized normal plasma or blood samples...
Keywords: Blood, chloride (ionized and total), coulometry, ion-selective electrode, Plasma, standardization
03/2006 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterImmunoglobulin light chains are components of antibodies, but some exist in a free form in serum and urine as a result of their excess production over heavy chains...
Keywords: antibody, Bence Jones protein, free immunoglobulin light chain, immunoassay, standardization
05/2006 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterKeywords: Automatisierung, diagnostischesFenster, humanes Immunschwächevirus, molekulare Diagnostik, Spenderscreening, Standardisierung, Therapie-monitoring
01/2005 | LaboratoriumsMedizin, Walter de GruyterBacterial contamination of blood components, especially of platelet concentrates (PCs), represents the highest infectious risk in blood transfusion...
Keywords: bakterielle Kontamination, Real-time PCR, Standardisierung, Sterilitätstestung
12/2006 | LaboratoriumsMedizin, Walter de GruyterTriggered by recent criticism from parties outside the clinical chemistry community on poor analytical accuracy of measurement procedures used for evaluating the calcium-parathyroid hormone-vitamin D axis, I argue, in this opinion paper, strongly in favor of prioritizing the establishment of accuracy...
Keywords: analytical quality, bias, standardization
09/2008 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterKeywords: artificial neural network, capillary electrophoresis, inter-observer variability, multicenter study, serum protein electrophoresis, standardization
08/2008 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterKeywords: saliva, sample collection, surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF/MS), standardization
01/2008 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterKeywords: creatinine, modeling, population pharmacokinetics, standardization
10/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterKeywords: oral fluid, saliva, standardization
10/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterThe measurement of glycated hemoglobin is central in the monitoring of glycemic control in patients with diabetes...
Keywords: diabetes, glycated hemoglobin, HbA1c, network, reference methods, standardization
08/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter