The letter “X” can stand for so many things.

I recently listened to a laboratory medicine podcast on the need for clinician friendly terms in laboratory testing.

Staying ahead of the curve: latest LOINC release changes

Many laboratory test panels include an expert review for overall interpretation as one of the results returned.

In the industry there are many available methods, such as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Ligase Chain Reaction (LCR), and Transcription-Mediated Amplification (TMA), for detecting infectious disease through molecular diagnostics.

LOINC is based on a six-axis perspective of what is being evaluated: component, property, timing, system, scale and method.