- Survey and Solutions for the Current Status of Quality Control in Small Hospital Laboratories
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Kim JH, Choi EJ, Hwang G, Lee JH, Han MS
- KMID: 2437176
- J Lab Med Qual Assur.
- 2018 Jun;40(2):101-108.
- doi: 10.15263/jlmqa.2018.40.2.101
BACKGROUND: To prevent medically significant errors, hospital laboratories must perform thorough statistical quality control (QC) procedures. We surveyed the QC status of small laboratories and created new statistical QC software... -
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- Mycobacterial Testing in Hospital Laboratories in Korea: Results of a Survey of 40 University or Tertiary-care Hospitals
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Kim MN, Lee SH, Yang SE, Pai CH
- KMID: 2300511
- Korean J Clin Pathol.
- 1999 Feb;19(1):86-91.
BACKGROUND: Although tuberculosis has often been referred to as diseases of the past, the current prevalence of active tuberculosis is still about 1% and it is 10th leading cause of... -
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- A Nationwide Multicenter Survey for Mycobacterial Testing in Korea
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Song SA, Kim SH, Kim CK, Sung H, Kim S, Chang CL, Shin JH
- KMID: 2052099
- Ann Clin Microbiol.
- 2015 Sep;18(3):69-75.
- doi: 10.5145/ACM.2015.18.3.69
BACKGROUND: There have been steady changes and improvements in diagnostic tests for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, so it is necessary to carry out periodic surveys to understand the current situation. The aims... -
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- Glycerol Interference on the Measurement of Triglyceride Concentration
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Jeon CH, Kim SK, Lee SC
- KMID: 1892646
- Korean J Clin Pathol.
- 1997 Oct;17(5):703-710.
BACKGROUND: As more than 80% of Korean hospital laboratories don't use glycerol blank for the triglyceride measurement, we investigated free glycerol interference on the measurement of triglyceride concentration. METHODS: We collected... -
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- Laboratory Inspection and Accreditation in Korea II: Analysis of the First Round Inspection
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Lee WG, Kwak YS, Lee DH, Hwang YS, Lee KN
- KMID: 1730148
- Korean J Lab Med.
- 2003 Oct;23(5):363-369.
BACKGROUND: The Korean Society of Laboratory Medicine (KSLM) Laboratory Inspection and Accreditation Program (IAP) has been developed after one year of study supported by a research grant from the Ministry... -
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- Survey Results of Medical Insurance Reimbursement System for Independent Medical Laboratories in Korea
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Bae SY, Kwon JA, Kim JS, Yoon SY, Lee CK, Lee KN, Kim DW, Min WK, Cha YJ, Chae SL, Hwang YS
- KMID: 1781475
- Korean J Lab Med.
- 2007 Apr;27(2):143-150.
- doi: 10.3343/kjlm.2007.27.2.143
BACKGROUND: A questionnaire survey was performed to perceive the problem of the current medical insurance reimbursement system for laboratory tests referred to independent medical laboratories; then, we intended to... -
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- Performance Evaluation of the Beckman Coulter DxN VERIS Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Assay in Comparison With the Abbott RealTime HBV Assay
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Park J, Cho H, Choi SJ, Lee GD, Sin SH, Ryu JH, Park HS, Lee H, Kim Y, Oh EJ
- KMID: 2420276
- Ann Lab Med.
- 2019 Jan;39(1):86-90.
- doi: 10.3343/alm.2019.39.1.86
The detection and quantification of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA plays an important role in diagnosing and monitoring HBV infection as well as in assessing the therapeutic response. We compared... -
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- Development of a Document Management System for the Standardization of Clinical Laboratory Documents
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Hwang SH, Jung SK, Kang SJ, Cha HS, Chung SH, Lee DH
- KMID: 1711318
- Ann Lab Med.
- 2013 Nov;33(6):441-448.
- doi: 10.3343/alm.2013.33.6.441
BACKGROUND: Documentation is very important; a considerable number of documents exist for use in accreditation inspection. However, most laboratories do not effectively manage the processes of documentation, organization, and storage.... -
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- Current Status and Proposal of a Guideline for Manual Slide Review of Automated Complete Blood Cell Count and White Blood Cell Dfferential
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Woo HY, Shin SY, Park H, Kim YJ, Kim HJ, Lee YK, Chae SL, Chang YH, Choi JR, Han K, Cho SR, Kwon KC
- KMID: 1781659
- Korean J Lab Med.
- 2010 Dec;30(6):559-566.
- doi: 10.3343/kjlm.2010.30.6.559
BACKGROUND: Manual slide review (MSR) is usually triggered by the results of automated hematolgy analyzers, but each laboaratory has different ciriteria for MSR. This study was carried out to investigate... -
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- Pseudohyponatremia:Does It Matter in Current Clinical Practice?
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Kim GH
- KMID: 2052275
- Electrolyte Blood Press.
- 2006 Nov;4(2):77-82.
- doi: 10.5049/EBP.2006.4.2.77
Serum consists of water (93% of serum volume) and nonaqueous components, mainly lipids and proteins (7% of serum volume). Sodium is restricted to serum water. In states of hyperproteinemia or... -
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- The Present Situation of Quality Assurance of Urinalysis Including Urinary Sediment Analysis Based on Korean External Quality Assurance Survey and Its Prospective
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Kim JQ, Kim DC, Jo SS
- KMID: 2055429
- J Clin Pathol Qual Control.
- 2000 Dec;22(2):265-270.
BACKGROUND: As other laboratory procedures urinalysis needs accurate and precise control of test process and it could be achieved by thorough internal and external quality control measures. This study was... -
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- Database Conversion and Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance Profile for Microscan using BacLink 2 Software
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Kim JS, Lee YK, Park JY, Kang HJ, Kang SH, Kim YC, Cho HC
- KMID: 1820202
- J Lab Med Qual Assur.
- 2003 Jun;25(1):189-193.
BACKGROUND: In hospital laboratory using Microscan, the search for an isolate or the analysis for antimicrobial susceptibility rates were obtained by the Data Management System (DMS) software. However, it is... -
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- Analysis of Factors Influencing the Generation of Unqualified Clinical Samples and Measures to Prevent this Generation
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Lai X, Yang P, Zhang Y, Cao J, Zhang L
- KMID: 1381688
- Ann Lab Med.
- 2012 May;32(3):216-219.
- doi: 10.3343/alm.2012.32.3.216
BACKGROUND: We investigated the influence of pre-analytical factors on the results of clinical tests and thereby analyzed approaches to improve quality management in clinical laboratories. METHODS: Unqualified clinical samples were selected... -
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- Clinical Pathology Laboratory Inspection and Accreditation in Korea I: Development of the System and Its Trial
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Lee WG, Kwak YS, Lee DH, Hwang YS, Lee KN
- KMID: 2300495
- Korean J Clin Pathol.
- 2001 Feb;21(1):86-92.
BACKGROUND: A policy development research project entitled "Feasibility study and development of clinical pathology laboratory inspection and accreditation system and its impact" was funded by the Ministry of Health and... -
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- Detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from Stool by Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Kim EC, Oh JH, Lee HJ
- KMID: 1550836
- Korean J Infect Dis.
- 1999 Oct;31(5):420-424.
BACKGROUND: Since a recent large outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infection in Japan, the surveillance for this infection has been performed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Korea. Some... -
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- Effects of Long Distance Transportation of Specimens on Test Results
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Lim HS, Lee YK, Min WK
- KMID: 1446272
- Lab Med Online.
- 2011 Apr;1(2):72-80.
- doi: 10.3343/lmo.2011.1.2.2
BACKGROUND: Accuracy of laboratory test results is an important issue. New guidelines for specimen delivery systems are needed for appropriate pretreatment of specimens and accuracy of results. METHODS: We evaluated various... -
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- Removing Lipemia in Serum/Plasma Samples: A Multicenter Study
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Castro-Castro MJ, Candás-Estébanez B, Esteban-Salán M, Calmarza P, Arrobas-Velilla T, Romero-Román C, PocovÃ-Mieras M, Aguilar-Doreste JA, on behalf of the Commission on Lipoprotein and Vascular Diseases, Sociedad Española de QuÃmica ClÃnica
- KMID: 2429116
- Ann Lab Med.
- 2018 Nov;38(6):518-523.
- doi: 10.3343/alm.2018.38.6.518
BACKGROUND: Lipemia, a significant source of analytical errors in clinical laboratory settings, should be removed prior to measuring biochemical parameters. We investigated whether lipemia in serum/plasma samples can be removed... -
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- Study of User Preference of Graphic User Interface in Laboratory Information System
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Kwak YS, Jeon HS, Choi YS, Cho H
- KMID: 2329724
- J Korean Soc Med Inform.
- 1997 Jun;3(1):351-354.
In order to elucidate employees satisfaction levels in using graphic user interface(GUI) in a laboratory information system(LIS), users attitudes toward GUI versus CUI(Character User Interface) in a similar LIS were... -
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- Development of a Novel Quality Improvement Indicator Based on the Hemolysis Index
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Lee EJ, Kim M, Kim HS, Park MJ, Lee YK, Kang HJ
- KMID: 2373600
- Ann Lab Med.
- 2016 Nov;36(6):599-602.
- doi: 10.3343/alm.2016.36.6.599
Hemolysis frequently causes preanalytical errors in laboratory measurements. We aimed to develop a quality improvement indicator for evaluating the extent of inappropriate procedures causing hemolysis in clinical samples collected in... -
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- An Experience of the Use of Anti-HBc and Anti-HBs for Blood Donor Screening Tests at a Tertiary Hospital Blood Center in Korea
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Lim YA, Yoon S
- KMID: 1781595
- Korean J Lab Med.
- 2009 Feb;29(1):59-65.
- doi: 10.3343/kjlm.2009.29.1.59
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to report the first experience of using tests of antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) and antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen... -
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