Reference Intervals and Decision Limits (C-RIDL)

Membership

Name Position Country Term Time in Office
K. Ichihara Chair JP 2nd 2013 01 - 2015 12
J. Barth Member UK 1st 2011 01 - 2013 12
G. Klee Member US 1st 2011 01 - 2013 12
Y. Ozarda Member TR 1st 2011 01 - 2013 12
K. Sikaris Member AU 1st 2011 01 - 2013 12

Terms of Reference

  • To review current concepts of establishing reference intervals and decision limits and to prepare state-of-the-art position statements regarding new avenues
  • To make available reference intervals and decision limits that respect the requirements of international directives such as the European IVD Directive 98/79, and relevant ISO standards
  • To determine priority list of measurands (analytes) for which reference intervals and/or decision limits have to be developed, considering various factors, such as age, gender, ethnicity, and for which the greatest improvements in medical decision making are anticipated
  • To monitor and evaluate currently proposed reference intervals for selected measurands (analytes) in the light of the concept of traceability and of the identification of the uncertainty
  • To establish transferabilty protocols of reference intervals and decision limits, which take into consideration inter-routine laboratory method variations and achieve better applicability in clinical practice
  • To collaborate with other organizations and/or to undertake establishment of reference intervals or decision limits for measurands (analytes) identified as a priority
  • To work in close collaboration with other Cs and WGs of SD and other IFCC Divisions for the development and appropriate clinical utilization of reference intervals and decision limits

Current Projects

  • Preparation of a publication on reference intervals for AST, ALT, GGT and ALP
  • Collaboration in a multicenter study for the definition of reference intervals of the most common serum analytes in the Asian population

 

List of Corresponding Members, nominated by National Societies

Name Full Member Society
María Cecilia Etchegoyen Confederación Unificada Bioquímica de la Republica Argentina (CUBRA)
Graham Jones Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists
Zita Kucinskiene Lithuanian Society of Laboratory Medicine
Danica Popović Montenegrian Association of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Layachi Chabraoui Société Marocaine de Chimie Clinique (SMCC)
Maurits Pekelharing Nederlandse Vereniging voor Klinische Chemie en Laboratoriumgeneeskunde (NVKC)
Salma Haq Pakistan Society of Chemical Pathologists
Gernand Wojciech Polish Society for Laboratory Diagnostics (PTDL)
Rajiv Erasmus South African Association of Clinical Biochemistry
Graciela Queiruga Asociación Bioquímica Uruguaya (ABU)

 

List of Corresponding Members, nominated by Corporate Members

Name Corporate Memeber
Dave Armbruster ABBOTT Diagnostics
Kiyohide Ishikura BECKMAN COULTER
Anne Skurup RADIOMETER
Ralph Thomae MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL Europe GmbH
Hugh Carr-Smith THE BINDING SITE
Gerry Bordash SIEMENS

 

Committee Chair's contact

Dr. Kiyoshi ICHIHARA
Dept of Clinical Laboratory Science
Faculty of Health Sciences
Yamaguchi University Graduate School
of Medicine
Minami-Kogushi 1-1-1
Ube 755-8505
Japan
Tel: +81-836-22-2884
Fax: +81-836-35-5213
E-mail: ichihara@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp



 

 

 

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