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Laboratory Medicine in Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
The past decade has seen a proliferation of research and publication related to laboratory science and psychiatry. Those advances are now captured in this revised second edition of Laboratory Medicine in Psychiatry and Behavioral Science.
Backed by years of clinical practice and research in neuropsychiatry and informed by literature from the National Library of Medicine as well as sources such as the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Drug Information book, online resources from ARUP Laboratories, and the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, this volume is designed to assist psychiatrists and other behavioral health clinicians in the care of adult psychiatric patients across a wide range of settings.
With the same comprehensive approach that was a hallmark of the first edition, this edition features new sections on COVID-19, 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, and DRESS syndrome, as well as updated descriptions of
• Laboratory tests, from CT angiography and blood alcohol level to electrocardiograms and a renal function panel• Diseases and conditions, including Alzheimer's disease, autism spectrum disorder, HIV and AIDS, and schizophrenia• Screening and monitoring of psychotropic medications, including benzodiazepines, fluoxetine, naltrexone, and vardenafil
Readers can be confident that the provided information is relevant to their daily practice: The included laboratory tests were chosen because they are core for any patient, are novel in medicine, or are particularly pertinent to psychiatry or behavioral health. Similarly, the diseases and conditions described are those for which laboratory tests are important in diagnosis or differential diagnosis; those that are common among psychiatric or geriatric patients; and those that have significant psychiatric, cognitive, or behavioral consequences.
With appendixes that contain algorithms, tables, and figures that will aid in understanding and interpreting various laboratory tests and their underlying biology, this volume sets itself apart from any other reference and is an indispensable resource for anyone in general psychiatric practice, from trainees to physician assistants and advanced practice nurses.
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Next generation healthcare systems using soft computing techniques
\"This book provides applications of soft computing techniques related to healthcare systems and can be used as a reference guide for assessing the roles that various techniques such as machine learning, fuzzy logic, and statistical mathematics play in the advancements of smart healthcare systems. The book presents the basics as well as the advanced concepts to help beginners, as well as industry professionals get up to speed on the latest developments in healthcare systems. The book will examine descriptive, predictive, and social network techniques, as well as provide a discussion on analytical tools and the important role they play in finding solutions to problems in healthcare systems\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Basic Skills in Interpreting Laboratory Data
Basic Skills in Interpreting Laboratory Data continues to be the most popular teaching text on laboratory data for pharmacy students as well as the go-to reference for pharmacists in therapeutic practice. Now in its seventh edition, Basic Skills has been expanded and updated to cover new drugs, research, and therapeutic approaches.
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Hope or Hype
Medical science has always promised -- and often delivered -- a longer, better life. But as the pace of science accelerates, do our expectations become unreasonable, fueled by an industry bent on profits and a media desperate for big news? Hope or Hype is a taboo-shattering look at what drives the American obsession with medical \"miracles,\" exposing the equipment manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies; doctors and hospitals too quick to order surgery; the politicians; the press; and our own \"technoconsumption\" mindset.
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Quick Review Cards for Medical Laboratory Science
A complete study guide!Use these handy cards for course review now...and exam prep later. More than 500 cards deliver concise, but complete coverage of the major disciplines on the Board of Certifications content outlinegeneral lab practice; hematology; immunology/serology; immunohematology; clinical chemistry; body fluids; clinical microbiology; and management and education.
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Fundamental laboratory mathematics
Conquer the math skills essential for the laboratory... and reduce the anxieties math often induces! Step by step, skill by skill... youll progress from simple to complex calculations, building your proficiencies and testing them along the way. Perfect for classroom, clinical, and professional success!.
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Measures of Interobserver Agreement and Reliability
Exploring applications in medical research and clinical epidemiology, this text continues to cover important issues related to the design and analysis of reliability and agreement studies. This edition contains a new chapter that describes various models for methods comparison studies as well as a new chapter on the analysis of reproducibility u.
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Multicenter Evaluation of Cystatin C Measurement after Assay Standardization
Since 2010, a certified reference material ERM-DA471/IFCC has been available for cystatin C (CysC). This study aimed to assess the sources of uncertainty in results for clinical samples measured using standardized assays.
This evaluation was performed in 2015 and involved 7 clinical laboratories located in France and Belgium. CysC was measured in a panel of 4 serum pools using 8 automated assays and a candidate isotope dilution mass spectrometry reference measurement procedure. Sources of uncertainty (imprecision and bias) were evaluated to calculate the relative expanded combined uncertainty for each CysC assay. Uncertainty was judged against the performance specifications derived from the biological variation model.
Only Siemens reagents on the Siemens systems and, to a lesser extent, DiaSys reagents on the Cobas system, provided results that met the minimum performance criterion calculated according to the intraindividual and interindividual biological variations. Although the imprecision was acceptable for almost all assays, an increase in the bias with concentration was observed for Gentian reagents, and unacceptably high biases were observed for Abbott and Roche reagents on their own systems.
This comprehensive picture of the market situation since the release of ERM-DA471/IFCC shows that bias remains the major component of the combined uncertainty because of possible problems associated with the implementation of traceability. Although some manufacturers have clearly improved their calibration protocols relative to ERM-DA471, most of them failed to meet the criteria for acceptable CysC measurements.
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