In this issue: Measurably better healthcare
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Foreword: Measurably better health care – signs of a (r)evolution in progress towards a new academic science?Guest editors: Tim J. James, Ellie Dow
Laboratory medicine and healthcare excellence – till death do us partColleen Strain, Tricia H. Ravalico
Procalcitonin (PCT) level in the emergency department identifies a high-risk cohort for all patients treated for possible sepsisGeorgia Lucas, Angela Bartolf, Nicholas Kroll, Agampodi-Umanda De Thabrew, Zoya Murtaza, Siddarth Kumar, Abrar Gani, Andrea Annoni, Marie Parsons, Helen Pardoe
Reducing patient risk and enhancing care through the development and implementation of a new chest pain pathway, expedited by and for the COVID-19 eraMartin P. Than, John W. Pickering, Philip Adamson, Thomas Clendon, Christopher M. Florkowski, John Lainchbury, Jacques Loubser, Alison Nankivel, Sally J. Aldous
Avoiding insufficient therapies and overdosing with co-reporting eGFRs (estimated glomerular filtration rate) for personalized drug therapy and improved outcomes – a simulation of the financial benefitsAdrian Hoenle, Karin Johanna Haase, Sebastian Maus, Manfred Hofmann, Matthias Orth
The use of faecal haemoglobin in deciding which patients presenting to primary care require further investigation (and how quickly) – the FIT approachJudith A. Strachan, Craig Mowat
The Kidney Check program – championing patient-centered, culturally safe, preventive kidney care in Canada’s rural and remote Indigenous communitiesSarah Curtis, David Collister, Heather Martin, Abdul Razaq Sokoro, Lorraine McLeod, Caroline Chartrand, Barry Lavallee, Cathy Woods, Adeera Levin, Paul Komenda
Is COVID-19 impacting prostate cancer screening? A survey of prostate-specific antigen test requests during a local outbreak
Anna Ferrari, Fabian Sanchis-Gomar, Camilla Mattiuzzi, Brandon M. Henry, Giuseppe Lippi
Monitoring of diabetic patients with poor glycemic control. Are international recommendations met?
José Antonio Delgado, Josep Miquel Bauça
Multicenter survey of physicians’ perception of interpretative commenting and reflective testing in Nigeria
Lucius Chidiebere Imoh, Chinelo Pamela Onyenekwu, Kenneth Ogar Inaku, Alexander Oghielu Abu, Chibuzo David Tagbo, Idris Yahaya Mohammed, Modupe Akinrele Kuti
E-gene RT-PCR crossing point value and other biochemical parameters as useful markers of death risk in COVID-19 patients
Alba Bellés-Bellés, María Bernal, Javier Gómez-Arbonés, Albert Bernet, Silvia Picó, Jessica Bueno, Carlos Chávez, Mercè García-González, Mercè Ibarz
Diabetic euglycemic ketoacidosis induced by oral antidiabetics type SGLT2i
Guillermo Velasco de Cos, María Isabel Sánchez-Molina Acosta, María Matilde Toval Fernández
