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US JOURNAL CLUB RECOGNITION FOR KEELE RESEARCH

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Posted on 12 March 2012

Four members of Keele's Research Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine are authors on a research paper that has been selected as a feature article by the US Clinical Chemistry Journal Club programme. The selection will immediately bring it to a very wide audience of current and future practitioners around the world. It will be circulated to several university Journal Clubs in the USA for discussion, together with a slide presentation and podcast, and will be posted online as a teaching resource.

The article, entitled "Inappropriate requesting of HbA1c is widespread: Assessment of prevalence, impact of national guidance and practice-to-practice variability", follows a theme of research in Professor Tony Fryer's group looking at increasing demand for clinical biochemistry services, drawing on experience from the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. The corresponding author for the paper is Professor Fryer, and the first author is Dr Owen Driskell, holder of a fellowship from the National Institute for Health Research. The other authors are Mr David Holland, of Keele's National Pathology Benchmarking Service, Dr Fahmy Hanna and Professor Peter Jones, ISTM, Dr Martin Tran, Department of Clinical Biochemistry at UHNS, and Mr John Pemberton, from Diabetes UK's North Staffordshire branch.  An abstract of the paper can be found here.

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