Labroots

Reference Intervals establishment, use, and pitfalls

‘My supplier has the wrong Reference Intervals’. For laboratorians, working with Reference Intervals included in the manufacturer’s Instruction for Use inserts might not always be suitable for the ...
Business Wire

CLSI Releases Guidelines for Defining, Establishing, and Verifying Reference Intervals in the Clinical Laboratory

WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A measured or observed laboratory test result from a person (usually a patient) is compared with a reference interval for the purpose of making a medical diagnosis, ...
European Medical Journal

Haemoglobin Reference Curves Improve Paediatric Assessment

Haemoglobin reference curves provide continuous age specific assessment and reveal differences from current WHO thresholds in ...
Medical Xpress

Using age, sex, and race-specific standards could reclassify many thyroid disease diagnoses

Using age-, sex-, and race-specific reference intervals instead of current intervals, they reclassified 48.5% of people with subclinical hypothyroidism as normal, especially women and white ...
Times Higher Education

Personalized Reference Intervals: Bridging the Gap to Precision, Personalized, and Predictive (3P) Medicine

A team from Acıbadem University with Norwegian researchers has developed a new algorithm to derive personalized reference intervals. Physicians usually use reference intervals to interpret patients' ...
Healio

Using one reference range for thyroid function tests may misdiagnose some adults

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers created thyroid function reference ranges adjusted for age, sex and racial-ethnic background. Using ...