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The Value of Intermediate^ or “I^”

Paula Snippes Vagnone, Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, MN Priyanka Uprety, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ Arryn Craney, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY Novel...

Clinical breakpoints provide an interpretation of the probability of treatment success, based on the MIC value or the area of growth inhibition by disk diffusion. Isolates with results within the susceptible category are predicted to be associated with a high chance of treatment success when the patient is administered that antimicrobial, whereas those in the resistant category are associated with low chance of treatment success.

Leading experts from industry, government, and the laboratory professions shared their insights into new and emerging technologies and discussed how using standards is integral to the future application and advancement of these technologies.

Interference screening in clinical chemistry is conducted by paired-difference testing: samples with and without the interferent are measured, and the measurand concentration difference is determined.

CLSI welcomes Victor Waddell, PhD, as their new President. Dr. Waddell is the current Director of the Arizona State Public Health Laboratory and Executive Director for the Arizona Biomedical...

Medical laboratory tests are essential to the clinical management of patients. It is important to express numerical results with additional properties, such as linearity.