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Laboratory Medicine LINKS
HBP 556 Fourth-year selective didactic

Compiled by Jay L. Bock, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Stony Brook University

Suggested additions or changes are welcome!

Revised April 2007

HB556 Home Page

The following sites may contain useful information related to clinical laboratory testing, as well as links to other interesting sites. As usual with the internet, information should be considered relative to its source. Accuracy is not guaranteed!

Cardiac risk

American Heart Association

ATP III Guidelines on high cholesterol

Cytogenetics

Cytogenetics Gallery at U of Washington

Diabetes

American Association of Clinical Endocrinology: 
guidelines on diabetes
Diabetes Guidelines from the American Diabetes Association

Genetics/molecular testing

OMIM (a comprehensive guide to inherited disease)

Hematology

Chapter: "The Red Cell & Anemia"
A list of hematology lists
Cells of the blood - a clickable map

Hematopathology Tutorial

Immunohematology/Blood Bank

Facts about blood from the AABB

Immunology

Immunology images

Microbiology

Chapter: "exotic infections"

bacteria
ticks

Osteoporosis

AACE Osteoporosis Guidelines

Pathology

Exams in Pathology 

Pregnancy and fetal testing

Information on Maternal-serum AFP testing
CF Testing

Regulations, accreditation, organizations:

American Association for Clinical Chemistry

American Society for Clinical Pathology

Clinical Laboratory Management Association
College of American Pathologists

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
New York State Laboratory Certification
US Government - Medicare, CLIA requirements, HIPAA, complete text of HIPAA privacy rule, FDA

Statistics and Probability

The Chance Database - links to extensive teaching and reference materials 
Clinical calculator - includes a Bayesian calculator 
The Let's Make a Deal paradox - useful for understanding conditional probabilities and Bayes theorem - description - applet
Statistics Textbook

Dr. Bock's Excel spreadsheet with some useful calculations for lab medicine

Test interpretations - general

A book on lab tests
A book on The Logic of Laboratory Medicine (2001 new edition)

Test menus

Laboratory handbooks at: UCSF,     ARUP

Thyroid guidelines

American Association of Clinical Endocrinology: 
guidelines on thyroid, thyroid nodules, thyroid cancer
Thyroid Disease Manager- includes diagnostic algorithms and a textbook, "The Thyroid and its Diseases"

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