Quality control in clinical chemistry : transactions of the VIth international symposium, Geneva, April 23-25, 1975

Berlin ; New York : W. de Cruyter, 1975, 1975. Fine. xvii, 557 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 3110066920 :; 9783110066920; National Library: 7605709 LCCN: 75-41464 ; LC: RB40; Dewey: 616.07/56; NLM: W3; QY 90 ; OCLC: 1973998 ; orange cloth ; no dustjacket ; name on front endpaper ; Contents: Considerations on bilirubin determination -- Comparison between determination models -- Interlaboratory quality control using the daily means of patients results -- Quality control in relation to determination materials, standards and controls -- Evaluation of some determination materials used in the Scandinavian Recommended Methods for determination of four enzymes in blood and the performance of control materials with these methods -- The control of error and use of standardized reference samples in estimation of the true biological normal range -- Studies on alkaline phosphates of different origin with an external quality control scheme -- Evaluation of several commercial controls. Correlation between them -- Interlaboaratory comparison of both accuracy and precision by two-sample method -- The World Health Organization-Center for Disease Control lipid standardization program -- Quality control in relation to data evaluation, processing and presentation -- The determination of assigned values for control specimens -- The role of external quality control schemes in improving the quality of laboratory results -- Computerized techniques for quality controlin the clinical chemistry laboratory -- Systems analysis of analytical procedures as a means of improving theiur performance -- Discussion of the options followed in processing quality control data -- Richterich Memorial Lecture -- Seeking the way -- Wuality reuirements for beta-NADH and beta-NAD -- Studies on the purity and storage of NADH -- The molar absorption coefficient of beat-Nicotinamide-Adenine-Dinucleotide -- Stability of NADH containing reagent for the determination of transaminases on the Greiner Selective Analyzer GSA II -- The contribution of spectrophotometric instrument month to month variability to the precision of molar concentration measurements using Molar Absorptivity Constant for NADH -- NAD quality control: Standardization of methods for the selection of an NAD Coenzyme -- A convenient enzyme system for the evaluation of NADH preparations -- Clinical studies of a system for the evaluation of NADH purity -- Comparison of mammalian tissue extracts and evaluation of a system for the detection of enzyme inhibitors in NADH preparations -- Temperature dependence of Difference-Absorption coefficients of NADH minus NAD+ and NADPH minus NADP+ in the near ultraviolet -- Quality control and hematology -- A first transatlantic, live demonstration of a computerized audio-response communications system of an automated clinical laboratory -- International criteria for reference materials -- Diagnostic material -- Acceptability of quality control materials -- A system approach to calibration etc etc ; FINE