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Articles and journal scans about Creatinine/urea
Article
October 2008
Parameters that reflect the carbon dioxide content of blood
Updated with new information from a 2008 article! Health demands that despite quite significant variation in its rate of production, the amount of carbon dioxide in blood is maintained within well-defined narrow limits.
The homeostatic mechanisms that maintain the normal content of carbon dioxide in blood are...
Blood gases/acid-base
Creatinine/urea
Hemoglobins
Article
November 2007
Automating shunt calculation improves analytical quality
Tartu University Hospital has improved the quality of blood gas testing in its clinical laboratory and critical care units by introducing an automatic system for blood gas analysis.
Not only did the quality of processes in the preanalytical phase improve, but also the automatic calculation of pO2(A-a), for APACHE...
Information management
Blood gases/acid-base
Process optimization
Quality assurance
Creatinine/urea
Journal Scan
July 2006
Laboratory test results predict death
Hospital mortality rates provide information for evaluating the
relative quality of the health care delivered. However,
interpretation of hospital mortality rates is fraught with
difficulty, not least because such bald data does not take account
of the severity of the illness of patients, whose outcome is being...
Creatinine/urea
Glucose
Article
April 2006
Reporting calculated GFR from serum creatinine
The National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP)
Laboratory Working Group reviewed problems related to serum
creatinine measurement for estimating glomerular filtration rate
(GFR) and prepared recommendations to standardize and improve
creatinine measurement.
The NKDEP recommends using the estimating equation...
Information management
Glucose
Creatinine/urea
Kidneys/fluids
Article
April 2005
POCT data mining – an introduction
Point-of-care testing (POCT) results, like other forms
of laboratory data, hold potential hidden information that can be
utilized to improve patient care.
The technique of extracting
useful information from vast amounts of data is termed “data
mining”. Technological solutions are now available to meet the
challenges ...
Point-of-care testing
Information management
Preanalytical phase
Process optimization
Glucose
Creatinine/urea
Hemoglobins
Article
March 2005
POCT data mining – a practical approach
Simple data-mining algorithms can be applied to
point-of-care testing (POCT) data to document compliance of quality
control, operator training and to identify potential preanalytical
errors.
Data can be manipulated to automate manual review and other
laborious processes for identifying data trends, verifying...
Point-of-care testing
Information management
Preanalytical phase
Process optimization
Creatinine/urea
Glucose
Article
January 2005
Biological variation and reference (normal) values
Test results are commonly interpreted against
population-based reference (normal) intervals, which should be
provided on every laboratory report, irrespective of whether
the test has been done as point-of-care testing or in a
clinical laboratory.
Reference intervals are difficult to
generate properly if international ...
Quality assurance
Creatinine/urea
Hemoglobins
Article
September 2004
Diabetic ketoacidosis
Disturbance of the mechanisms which maintain normal
blood pH is a defining feature of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA),
an acute and life-threatening complication of the chronic
metabolic disease, diabetes.
For this reason diagnosis and
monitoring of DKA invariably include measurement of arterial
blood gases. This...
Electrolytes
Blood gases/acid-base
Preanalytical phase
Glucose
Creatinine/urea
Kidneys/fluids
Point-of-care testing
Article
January 2004
Monitoring fluid and electrolyte therapy in the newborn intensive care unit
Fluid and electrolyte management is an important and challenging part of the management of any very premature or critically ill newborn. The newborn's ability to maintain fluid and electrolyte homeostasis in the face of the vagaries of extrauterine life is compromised by immature renal function.
The very premature...
Preanalytical phase
Neonatology
Glucose
Lactate
Creatinine/urea
Article
May 2003
STAT testing in the future
Since the mid 1990's Point of Care Testing (POCT) has been viewed as a solution to a declared need for Short Turn Around Testing (STAT).
However, is it being utilized in a way that meets the needs of improving patient care and hospital quality assurance? What is STAT testing, why and how did it become POCT? How is...
Process optimization
Point-of-care testing
Information management
Glucose
Creatinine/urea