COVID-19-another influential event impacts on laboratory medicine management.

Background: Before public health emergencies became a major challenge worldwide, the scope of laboratory management was only related to developing, maintaining, improving, and sustaining the quality of accurate laboratory results for improved clinical outcomes. Indeed, quality management is an especially important aspect and has achieved great milestones during the development of clinical laboratories.

Current Status: However, since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to be a threat worldwide, previous management mode inside the separate laboratory could not cater to the demand of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Detection of autoantibodies in the serum of primary hepatocarcinoma patients.

Objective: To study the significance of detecting autoantibodies in primary hepatocarcinoma (PHC) patients.

Methods: Autoantibodies were detected by indirect immunofluorescence assay. Antigens and antibodies of HBV were determined by enzyme immune assay.