Commended, Basic and Clinical Sciences, BMA Awards 2007The book has been required reading in clinical pathology since 1908. Its comprehensive coverage gives you an in-depth understanding of lab test selection and interpretation of results. A new full-colour layout makes reference much easier. New chapters on laboratory regulations, nutrition, point-of-care testing, bioterrorism, proteomics, microarray
analysis, and the human genome project – as well as a completely new section on cancer testing and meticulous updates from cover to cover – put all the latest, most essential knowledge at your fingertips.
- Describes the scientific foundation, and clinical application of today's complete range of laboratory tests.
- Delivers quick and easy access to information with a superb organization that lends itself to continuous reading as well as specific, on-the-spot referencing of a particular problem or condition.
- Presents a new full-color layout, many new color illustrations and visual aids, and a new organ-system organization to make reference easier and faster.
- Provides new chapters on Proteomics, Microarray Analysis, and Human Genome Project in Laboratory-Based Diagnostics - authored by pioneering experts who helped originate these techniques.
- Delivers a new chapter on Laboratory Regulations that details stringent new guidelines in the U.S. and abroad (such as CLIA88 and HIPAA), inspection, accreditation, and proficiency testing.
- Includes a completely new section on Cancer Testing that covers all aspects of molecular cancer testing, oncoproteins and early tumor detection, and tumor markers.
- Incorporates sweeping updates on instrumentation and clinical laboratory automation · medicolegal aspects of environmental toxicology, occupational exposures, and workplace/employment drug testing · molecular microbiology testing · bioterrorism · nutritional status testing · point-of-care testing · and many other evolving topics.
- Offers an increased emphasis on error detection, correction, and prevention as well as cost-effective test selection.
Richard A. McPherson, MD, Professor and Chairman, Division of Clinical Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; and Matthew R. Pincus, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology, State University of New York Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn; Chairman, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, New York Harbor Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Brooklyn, NY
