""Laboratory practice has evolved in recent years with greater diversity of testing, increased automation improvement in precision and accuracy, and decrease in test turn-around times all against a background need for cost containment and increasing accountability to hospital management.
Advanced Laboratory Methods reviews advances in haematological methods designed to achieve these objectives including some of the newer measurable parameters, with sections on blood cell counting, haemoglobinometry, abnormal haemoglobin detection, erythrocyte sedimentation, haemopoietic factors and various aspects of coagulation.""

Contents:

Part 1: The Blood Count
Quality assurance for basic haematology cell counts
The blood cell count
The differential cell count
Instrumental flagging and blood film review
Reticulocyte counting: methods and clinical applications
Leucocyte immunophenotyping: the principles and key practical issues
Part 2: Haemoglobinometry
Haemoglobinometry: the reference method
Haemoglobinometry: screening and routine practice
Part 3: Haemoglobin A2, F and the abnormal haemoglobins
Detection and identification of haemoglobin variants
Part 4: Erythrocyte sedimentation
Measuring the erythrocyte sedimentation rate
Part 5: Haematopoietic factors
The measurement of ferritin
The measurement of serum vitamin B12, serum folate and red cell folate
Part 6: Coagulation testing
Standardisation and control of heparin testing
Coagulation instrumentation: hospital laboratory to the home
Reference ranges in haemostasis
Lupus anticoagulant testing
Diagnostic testing for familial thrombophilia
Standardisation and control of warfarin therapy.