Anatomy of a laboratory systems selection.

At HealthTrust we believe that if it is a good idea today, it probably was a good idea yesterday, and therefore should be professionally and appropriately implemented as soon as possible. And that's how we approached the survey of our hospital's needs, the investigation of 50 vendors in the laboratory system industry and a vendor selection in 90 days.

Extra reactivities detected in flow-cytometry-positive, CDC-negative crossmatches are definable HLA specificities.

In this preliminary study, additional reactions were detected in sera that were not found by T-AHG-CDC. The reactions had definable HLA specificities. In our laboratory, the procedures described in this article had the following relative sensitivities for detecting class I HLA alloantibody specificities: FC = B-AHG-CDC greater than T-AHG-CDC greater than B-CDC greater than T-CDC.