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External quality assessment (EQA) trials of conventional newborn screening tests for phenylketonuria, galactosemia, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, maple syrup urine disease, homocystinuria, and congenital hypothy roidism, as well as extended newborn...
Analytical errors owing to endogenous interfering substances may occur for some patient specimens. Interference can lead to false-positive or falsenegative results, or both, which may lead to a false diagnosis...
Background: The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) test is one of the most frequently performed in clinical laboratories. In addition to traditional ESR methods such as the Westergren and Wintrobe methods,...
The general chemistr y proficiency testing (PT) program (2021) of the Korean Association of External Quality Assessment Service consisted of routine chemistry and urine chemistry programs, including 29 and 13...
The accuracy-based creatinine (ABCr) proficiency testing (PT) program of the Korean Association of External Quality Assessment Service has become a mandatory program since 2020. This study analyzes the results of...
Background: Next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based liquid biopsy testing using peripheral blood is a minimally invasive technique that can identify the characteristics of tumor-derived circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in cellfree DNA (cfDNA)....
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) test is very important for preventing the spread of COVID-19 and optimum treatment of patients.
The purpose of this study was to retrospectively validate the...
Background: The ELITe-MGB Kit (ELITech Group, Italy) is a qualitative and quantitative nucleic acid amplification assay used for the detection and quantification of various viruses, especially in the clinical management...