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• •Provides guidance on error detection, correction, and prevention, as well as cost-effective test selection.
• •Features a full-color layout, illustrations and visual aids, and an organization based on organ system.
• •Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
• •Features the latest knowledge on cutting-edge technologies of molecular diagnostics and proteomics.
• •Includes a wealth of information on the exciting subject of omics; these extraordinarily complex measurements reflect important changes in the body and have the potential to predict the onset of diseases such as diabetes mellitus.
• •Coverage of today's hottest topics includes advances in transfusion medicine and organ transplantation; molecular diagnostics in microbiology and infectious diseases; point-of-care testing; pharmacogenomics; and the microbiome.
• •Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring chapter discusses the necessity of testing for therapeutic drugs that are more frequently being abused by users.