BACKGROUND Concern has been raised about the quality of available biological variation
(BV) estimates and the effect of their application in clinical practice. A European Federation …

Biological variation (BV) data have many important applications in laboratory medicine.
Concerns about quality of published BV data led the European Federation of Clinical …

This paper, prepared by the EFLM Task and Finish Group on Allocation of laboratory tests to
different models for performance specifications (TFG-DM), is dealing with criteria for …

Although the measures to improve quality in the clinical laboratory have been enormous in
the past years, not least of all due to the introduction of the ISO standards 15189 and 17025 …

The current gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis, the rRT-PCR test, is hampered by long
turnaround times, probable reagent shortages, high false-negative rates and high prices. As …

We suggest here a pragmatic approach for managing results of clinical chemistry testing in
hemolyzed samples collected from adults/older children, attempting to balance the need to …

In recent decades, the study of biological variation of laboratory analytes has received
increased attention. The reasons for this interest are related to the potential practical …

Background: Biological variation (BV) data have many fundamental applications in
laboratory medicine. At the 1st Strategic Conference of the European Federation of Clinical …

When assessing changes in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) it is important to differentiate
pathological change from intrinsic biological and analytical variation. GFR is measured …

To ensure that clinical laboratories produce results that are both accurate and of clinical
utility it is essential that only samples of adequate quality are analysed. Although various …