Editorial to celebrate the 60th anniversary of CCLM Tomris Ozben Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine: Happy 60th Anniversary Khosrow Adeli Quality in laboratory medicine and the Journal: walking together Mario Plebani The harmonization issue in laboratory medicine: the commitment of CCLM Martina Zaninotto, Maria Stella Graziani, Mario Plebani The preanalytical phase – from an instrument-centred to a patient-centred laboratory medicine Janne Cadamuro, Ana-Maria Simundic Biological variation: recent development and future challenges Sverre Sandberg, Anna Carobene, Bill Bartlett, Abdurrahman Coskun, Pilar Fernandez-Calle, Niels Jonker, Jorge Díaz-Garzón, Aasne K. Aarsand Method evaluation in the clinical laboratory Tze Ping Loh, Brian R. Cooke, Corey Markus, Rosita Zakaria, Mai Thi Chi Tran, Chung Shun Ho, Ronda F. Greaves, On behalf of the IFCC Working Group on Method Evaluation Protocols Redesigning the surveillance of in vitro diagnostic medical devices and of medical laboratory performance by quality control in the traceability era Mauro Panteghini Lot-to-lot variation and verification Tze Ping Loh, Corey Markus, Chin Hon Tan, Mai Thi Chi Tran, Sunil Kumar Sethi, Chun Yee Lim Tutorial: statistical methods for the meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies Peter Schlattmann Cardiac troponins – a paradigm for diagnostic biomarker identification and development Karl J. Lackner Judging the clinical suitability of analytical performance of cardiac troponin assays Magdalena Krintus, Mauro Panteghini Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine celebrates 60 years – narrative review devoted to the contribution of the journal to the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 Julien Favresse, Jonathan Douxfils, Brandon Henry, Giuseppe Lippi, Mario Plebani How to best use procalcitonin to diagnose infections and manage antibiotic treatment Philipp Schuetz Recent advances in laboratory hematology reflected by a decade of CCLM publications Johannes J.M.L. Hoffmann, Eloísa Urrechaga D-dimer: old dogmas, new (COVID-19) tricks Giuseppe Lippi, François Mullier, Emmanuel J. Favaloro Towards 50 years of platelet function analyser (PFA) testing Emmanuel J. Favaloro, Leonardo Pasalic, Giuseppe Lippi HbA1c and biomarkers of diabetes mellitus in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine: ten years after Philippe Gillery Mass spectrometry in the clinical laboratory. A short journey through the contribution to the scientific literature by CCLM Stephanie Rankin-Turner, Liam M. Heaney Assessing vitamin D metabolism – four decades of experience Markus Herrmann Clinical usefulness of circulating tumor markers Xavier Filella, María Rodríguez-Garcia, Esther Fernández-Galán Biomarkers in the management of lung cancer: changing the practice of thoracic oncology Bohuslav Melichar Pleural fluid biochemical analysis: the past, present and future Wen-Qi Zheng, Zhi-De Hu Evolution of thyroid cancer biomarkers: from laboratory test to patients’ clinical management Maria Luisa Garo, Alfredo Campennì, Petra Petranovic-Ovcaricek, Federica D’Aurizio, Luca Giovanella Determination of parathyroid hormone: from radioimmunoassay to LCMS/MS Etienne Cavalier The impact of COVID-19 on citations of laboratory medicine journals Giuseppe Lippi |