Science & Research

Tips on Ordering and Interpreting SARS-CoV-2 Tests

In AACC's Getting the Right Results at the Right Time video series, laboratory experts tackle questions about implementing high quality SARS-CoV-2 testing. The latest video explains POCT quality and regulatory challenges.

Harmonization and Standardization: Where Are We Now?

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W. Greg Miller and N. Greenberg review metrological traceability and how these new approaches will improve the capability to achieve harmonized results for clinical samples.

AACC Recommendations for SARS-CoV-2 Serology Testing

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These blood-based tests complement PCR-based diagnostic testing, but they have limitations depending on the timing of a test versus a patient’s antibody response as well as a test’s performance characteristics.

Predicting Mortality Risk in Healthy People

N. Pho, A.K. Manrai, J.T. Leppert, et al. have found that reference and nonoutlying variations in common biomarkers are consistently associated with mortality risk in healthy Americans, but their additive contribution in explaining mortality risk is minor.