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INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL for STANDARDIZATION in HAEMATOLOGY
Publications
Guidelines, Recommendations, Editorials & Articles
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
December 2024
December 2024
July 2024
2024
Emina Emilia Torlakovic · Katherine R. Calvo · Tracy George · Elizabeth Hyjek · Szu-Hee Lee· Anna Porwit · Elena Sabattini · Leonie Saft · Xiaoge Zhou · Alexandar Tzankov
Category: ICSH Guideline
Publisher: Wiley
First Published: 21 December 2024
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21 Dec 24
Andrea Mosca · Cristian Arsene · Renata Paleari · Patricia Kaiser · Kees Harteveld · Yvonne Daniel · Chie Amano · Atsushi Murakami · Guy Auclair - on behalf of the IFCC-ICSH Joint Working Group for the Standardization of HbA2 and of the IFCC Working Group for the Standardization of HbF
Category: ICSH Guideline
Publisher: Science Direct
First Published: 9 December 2024
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PII: S0009-8981(24)02340-4
9 Dec 24
D. M. Adcock · G. W. Moore · G. W. Kershaw · S. A. L. Montalvao · R. C. Gosselin
on behalf of International Council for the Standardization in Haematology (ICSH)
Category: ICSH Recommendations
Publisher: Wiley
First Published: 15 July 2024
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Cornelis L. Harteveld · Richard McCafferty · Terry Fawcett · Wendy N. Erber, on behalf of International Council for the Standardization in Haematology (ICSH)
Category: Original Article
Publisher: Wiley
First Published: 25 February 2024
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15 July 24
Richard McCafferty · George Cembrowski · Barbara de la Salle · Mingting Peng · Eloisa Urrechaga
Category: Review Article
Publisher: Wiley
First Published: 12 January 2024
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Richard McCafferty · George Cembrowski · Barbara de la Salle · Mingting Peng · Eloisa Urrechaga
Category: ICSH Guidelines
Publisher: Wiley
First Published: 08 January 2024
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2023
Report of the International Council for Standardization in Haematology working group for standardization of reticulocyte parameters
Amrom E. Obstfeld · Bruce H. Davis · Jin-Yeong Han · Eloisa Urrechaga
Category: ICSH Report
Publisher: Wiley
First Published: 07 December 2023
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International Council for Standardization in Haematology Field Study Evaluating Optimal Interpretation Methods for Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time and Prothrombin Time Mixing Studies
Robert C. Gosselin · CLS; Gary W. Moore, BSc, DBMS · Geoffrey W. Kershaw, FAIMS · Silmara Montalvão, PhD · Dorothy M. Adcock, MD
Original Article: ICSH Editorials
Publisher: Arch Pathol Lab Med
First Published: 28 November 2023
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New ICSH Recommendations on fibrinogen assays, thrombin clotting time and related tests in the investigation of bleeding disorders.
Ian Mackie · Alessandro Casini · Marlien Pieters · Rajiv Pruthi · Chris Reilly-Stitt · Atsuo Suzuki
Category: ICSH Recommendations
Publisher: Wiley
First Published: 20 November 2023
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New ICSH Guidance for New Lot Verification of Coagulation Reagents, Calibrators, and Controls
Robert C. Gosselin, CLS · Donna Castellone, MS, MASCP, MT (ASCP) SH · Akbar Dorgalaleh, PhD · Kieron Hickey · Giuseppe Lippi, MD · Karen Moffat, BEd, MSc, ART, FCSMLS(D) · Rebecca O’Toole, MSc · Joe Rigano · BAppSci (MLS) (Dis), FAIMS
Category: ICSH Guidance
Publisher: Thieme
First Published: 15 November 2023
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ICSH guidance for measurement of factor VIII and factor IX type I inhibitors
Piet Meijer, Flora Peyvandi, Guy Young, Rajiv Pruthi, Simara de Lima Montalvao and Steve Kitchen
Category: ICSH Guidance
Publisher: Wiley
First Published: 07 June 2023
ICSH guidance for INR and D-dimer testing using Point of Care testing in primary care
David A. Fitzmaurice, Geert-Jan Geersing, Xavier Armoiry, Sam Machin, Steve Kitchen, Ian Mackie
Category: ICSH Guidance
Publisher: Wiley
First Published: 07 March 2023
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Paul Harrison, Joshua Price, Marie Didembourg, Alan Johnson, Samuel Baldwin, Marcel Veronneau, Daniel Baertlein, Xiaoyong Shi, Samuel Machin
Category: Original Article
First Published: 26 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
2021 Publications
Ian J. Mackie · Tracy I. George
ICSH Category: Editorial
Publisher: Wiley
First Published: 11 November 2021
ICSH Website: Page link - here
Steve Kitchen - Dorothy M. Adcock - Ray Dauer - Ann-Helen Kristoffersen - Giuseppe Lippi - Ian Mackie - Richard A. Marlar - Sukesh Nair
Category: ICSH Recommendations
First Published: 27 September 2021
Publisher: Wiley
Gina Zini - Giuseppe d'Onofrio - Wendy N. Erber - Szu-Hee Lee - Yutaka Nagai - Grzegorz W. Basak - Jean-François Lesesve
Category: ICSH Recommendations
First Published: 24 August 2021
Publisher: Wiley
Steve Kitchen - Dorothy M. Adcock - Ray Dauer - Ann-Helen Kristoffersen - Giuseppe Lippi - Ian Mackie - Richard A. Marlar - Sukesh Nair
Category: ICSH Recommendations
First Published: 07 June 2021
Publisher: Wiley
Ian Mackie - Wendy N. Erber
Category: ICSH Editorials
First Published: 03 June 2021
Publisher: Wiley
Jonathan Douxfils - Dorothy M. Adcock - Shannon M. Bates - Emmanuel J. Favaloro - Isabelle Gouin-Thibault - Cecilia Guillermo - Yohko Kawai - Edelgard Lindhoff-Last - Steve Kitchen - Robert C. Gosselin
Category: ICSH Recommendations
First Published: 19 March 2021
Publisher: Thieme
(ICSH) Laboratory Guidance for the Verification of Haemostasis Analyser-Reagent Test Systems. Part 2: Specialist Tests and Calibrated Assays
Chris Gardiner - Robyn Coleman - Moniek P. M. de Maat - Akbar Dorgalaleh - Marión Echenagucia - Robert C. Gosselin - Masahiro Ieko - Steve Kitchen
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidance
First Published: 20 April 2021
2020
(ICSH) Laboratory Guidance for the Evaluation of Haemostasis Analyser-Reagent Test Systems. Part 1: Instrument-Specific Issues and Commonly used Coagulation Screening Tests
Chris Gardiner - Robyn Coleman - Moniek P. M. de Maat - Akbar Dorgalaleh - Marión Echenagucia - Robert C. Gosselin - Masahiro Ieko - Steve Kitchen
Category: ICSH Guidance
First Published: 29 November 2020
Ian Mackie - Ilaria Mancini - Joshua Muia - Johanna Kremer Hovinga - Sukesh Nair - Sam Machin - Ross Baker
2019
Robert C. Gosselin - Dorothy Adcock - Akbar Dorgalaleh - Emmanuel J. Favaloro - Giuseppe Lippi - João M. Pego - Irene Regan - Virginie Siguret
Alexander Kratz - Szu-hee Lee - Gina Zini - Jurgen A. Riedl - Mina Hur - Sam Machin,
Barbara De la Salle - Adrian D. Stephens - Barbara J. Wild - Cornelis L. Harteveld - Keith Hyde
2018
Robert C. Gosselin - Dorothy M. Adcock - Shannon M. Bates - Jonathan Douxfils - Emmanuel J. Favaloro - Isabelle Gouin-Thibault - Cecilia Guillermo - Yohko Kawai - Edelgard Lindhoff-Last - Steve Kitchen
2017
A. Kratz - M. Plebani - M. Peng - Y.K. Lee - R. McCafferty - S.J. Machin
2016
M. Brereton - R. McCafferty - K. Marsden - Y. Kawai - J. Etzell - A. Ermens
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 27 August 2016
Publisher: Wiley
T. B. Keng - B. De La Salle - G. Bourner - A. Merino - J-Y. Han - Y. Kawai - M. T. Peng - R. McCafferty
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 18 July 2016
Publisher: Wiley
2015
A. D. Stephens - R. Colah - S. Fucharoen - J. Hoyer - D. Keren - A. McFarlane - D. Perrett - B. J. Wild,
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 15 September 2015
Publisher: Wiley
E. E. Torlakovic - R. K. Brynes - E. Hyjek - S.-H. Lee - H. Kreipe - M. Kremer - R. McKenna - Y. Sadahira - A. Tzankov - M. Reis - A. Porwit
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 15 May 2015
Publisher: Wiley
M.-J. King - L. Garçon - J. D. Hoyer - A. Iolascon - V. Picard - G. Stewart - P. Bianchi - S.-H. Lee - A. Zanella
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 18 March 2015
Publisher: Wiley
L. Palmer - C. Briggs - S. McFadden - G. Zini - J. Burthem - G. Rozenberg - M. Proytcheva - S. J. Machin
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 02 March 2015
Publisher: Wiley
2014
C. Briggs - N. Culp - B. Davis - G. d'Onofrio - G. Zini - S.J. Machin
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 25 March 2014
Publisher: Wiley
G. Bourner - B. De la Salle - T. George - Y. Tabe - H. Baum - N. Culp - T. B. Keng
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 14 March 2014
Publisher: Wiley
2013
Validation of Cell-Based Fluorescence Assays: Practice guidelines from the ICSH and ICCS – Part V – Assay Performance Criteria
Brent Wood - Dragan Jevremovic - Marie C. Béné - Ming Yan - Patrick Jacobs - Virginia Litwin
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 10 September 2013
Publisher: Wiley
Validation of Cell-Based Fluorescence Assays: Practice guidelines from the ICSH and ICCS – Part IV - Postanalytic Considerations
David Barnett - Raaul Louzao - Peter Gambell - Jitakshi De - Teri Oldaker - Curtis A. Hanson
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 10 September 2013
Publisher: Wiley
Validation of Cell-Based Fluorescence Assays: Practice guidelines from the ICSH and ICCS – Part III - Analytical Issues
David Barnett - Raaul Louzao - Peter Gambell - Jitakshi De - Teri Oldaker - Curtis A. Hanson
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 10 September 2013
Publisher: Wiley
Validation of Cell-Based Fluorescence Assays: Practice guidelines from the ICSH and ICCS – Part II - Prenalytical Issues
Bruce H. Davis - Amar Dasgupta - Steven Kussick - Jin-Yeong Han - Annalee Estrellado
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 10 September 2013
Publisher: Wiley
Validation of Cell-Based Fluorescence Assays: Practice guidelines from the ICSH and ICCS – Part I - Rationale and Aims
Bruce H. Davis - Brent Wood - Teri Oldaker - David Barnett
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 10 September 2013
Publisher: Wiley
2012
Mikael Roussel - Bruce H. Davis - Thierry Fest - Brent L. Wood
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 26 June 2012
Publisher: Wiley
2011
G. Zini - G. d’Onofrio - C. Briggs - W. Erber - J. M. Jou - S. H. Lee - S. McFadden - J. L. Vives-Corrons - N. Yutaka - J. F. Lesesve
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 11 November 2011
Publisher: Wiley
A. D. Stephens - M. Angastiniotis - E. Baysal - V. Chan - S. Fucharoen - P. C. Giordano - J. D. Hoyer - A. Mosca - B. Wild
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 05 October 2011
Publisher: Wiley
A. D. Stephens - M. Angastiniotis - E. Baysal - V. Chan - S. Fucharoen - P. C. Giordano - J. D. Hoyer - A. Mosca - B. Wild
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 14 September 2011
Publisher: Wiley
J. M. Jou - S. M. Lewis - C. Briggs - S-H. Lee - B. De La Salle - S. McFadden
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 25 February 2011
Publisher: Wiley
2010
Bruce H. Davis - Bart Jungerius
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 22 February 2010
Publisher: Wiley
2008
S.-H. Lee - W. N. Eerber - A. Porwit - M. Tomonaga - L. C. Peterson
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 04 September 2008
Publisher: Wiley
C. Briggs - J. Carter - S.-H. Lee - L. Sandhaus - R. Simon-Lopez - J.-L. Vives Corrons
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 10 March 2008
Publisher: Wiley
The International Council for Standardization in Haematology Expert Panel on Cytometry, and
The International Society of Laboratory Hematology Task Force on Platelet Counting
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: March 2001
Publisher: Oxford Academic AJCP
Paul Harrison, PhD - Kenneth A. Ault, MD - Sabrinah Chapman, PhD - Lori Charie - Bruce Davis, MD - Keiji Fujimoto, MEng - Berend Houwen, MD - PhD, Jolanta Kunicka, PhD - Francis Lacombe, PhD - Sam Machin, MD - Robert Raynor, PhD - Luc van Hove, MD, PhD - Onno W. van Assendelft, MD, PhD.
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 03 January 2001
Publisher: Oxford Academic AJCP
International reference reagents: antihuman globulin.
Vox Sang. 1999;77(2):121-7.
An ISBT/ICSH joint working party report. International Society of Blood Transfusion. International Committee for Standardization in Haematology.
Case J, Ford DS, Chung A, Collins R, Kochman S, Mazda T, Overbeeke M, Perera R, Sakuldamrongpanich T, Scott M, Voak D, Zupańska B.
ICategory: Original Article
First Published: 1999
Publisher: Vox Sang
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1996
Recommendations for Reference Method for Haemoglobinometry in Human Blood (ICSH Standard 1995) and Specifications for International Haemiglobincyanide Standard (4th edition).
J Clin Pathol. 1996;49(4): 271–274
Members of the expert panel on haemoglobinometry (1995): A Zwart, Chairman, Emmen, The Netherlands; 0 W van Assendelft, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; B S Bull, Loma Linda, California, USA; J M England, Watford, UK; S M Lewis, London, UK; W G Zijlstra, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Publication link - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC500441/pdf/jclinpath00241-0001.pdf
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 1996
Publisher:
Stability of Haemiglobincyanide (HiCN) Standards
J Clin Pathol. 1996;49(4): 275–277
van Assendelft OW, Buursma A, Zijlstra WG.
Publication link - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC500443/pdf/jclinpath00241-0005.pdf
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ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 1996
Publisher: J Clin Pathol
Recommendations for reference method for haemoglobinometry in human blood (ICSH standard 1995) and specifications for international haemiglobinocyanide standard (4th edition).
J Clin Pathol. 1996;49(4):271-4.
Zwart A, van Assendelft OW, Bull BS, England JM, Lewis SM, Zijlstra WG.
Publication link - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC500441/pdf/jclinpath00241-0001.pdf
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ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 1996
Publisher: J Clin Pathol
Interpretation of Measured Red Cell Mass and Plasma Volume in Adults: Expert Panel on Radionuclides of the International Council for Standarization in Haelatology
British Journal of Haematology, 1995; 89:748-756
T.C. Pearson, D.L. Guthrie, J. Simpson, S.Chinn, G. Barosi, A. Ferrant, S.M. Lewis and Y. Najean
Publication link - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2141.1995.tb08411.x/pdf
ICSH Category: ICSH Editorials
First Published: 1995
Publisher: Br J Haematol
New developments in establishing reference methods in blood cell counting.
Lab Med. 1995; 19:191-201
R.M. Rowan
Publication link - https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/labm.1995.19.1-12.191/html
ICSH Category: ICSH Editorials
First Published: 1995
Publisher: Lab Med
Hüfner Memorial Symposium: Analytical and Physiological Aspects of 100 Years of Hemoglobin Research.
Lab Med. 1995; 1:143-169
ICSH Category: ICSH Editorials
First Published: 1995
Publisher: Lab Med
Hematology Laboratory Management and Practice. S.M. Lewis SM, J.A. Koepke
Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK, 1995
Publication link - https://search.worldcat.org/formats-editions/624148489
ICSH Category: ICSH Editorials
First Published: 1995
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Recommended procedures for the classification of acute leukaemias.
Leuk Lymphoma. 1995; 18 Suppl 1:1-12.
C S Scott 1, G J Den Ottolander, D Swirsky, G A Pangalis, J L Vives Corrons, A De Pasquale, L Van Hove, J M Bennett, K Namba, G Flandrin, et al.
Publication link - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7496347/
PMID: 7496347 DOI: 10.3109/10428199509075296
ICSH Category: ICSH Editorials
First Published: 1995
Publisher: Pub Med
1995
Reference method for the enumeration of erythrocytes and leucocytes.
Clin Lab Haematol. 1994;16:131-138
Publication link - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2257.1994.tb00399.x/pdf
ICSH Category:
First Published: 1994
Publisher: Wiley
Guidelines for the evaluation of blood cell analyzers including those used for differential leucocyte and reticulocyte counting and cell marker applications.
Clin Lab Haematol. 1994;16:157-174
Publication link - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2257.1994.tb00402.x/pdf
ICSH Category: ICSH Guidelines
First Published: 1994
Publisher: Wiley
Recommendations of the International Council for Standardization in Haematology for ethylenediaminetetracetic acid anticoagulation of blood for blood cell counting and sizing.
Am J Clin Pathol. 1993;100:371-372
Publication link - https://academic.oup.com/ajcp/article-abstract/100/4/371/1755022
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 1993
Publisher: Oxford Academic
Scott CS, Den Ottolander GJ, Swirsky D, Pangalis GA, Vives Corrons JL, de Pasquale A, van Hove L, Bennett JM, Namba K, Flandrin G, Lewis SM, Polliack A. Recommended procedures for the classification of acute leukaemias.
Leuk Lymphoma. 1993;11(1-2):37-50
Publication link - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/10428199309054729
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 1993
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ICSH recommendations for measurement of erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
J Clin Pathol. 1993;46:198-203
Publication link - https://jcp.bmj.com/content/46/3/198
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 1993
Publisher: BMJ Journals
Recommendations for standardization, safety and quality control of erythrocyte sedimentation rate / prepared on behalf of the World Health Organization by John Stuart and S. M. Lewis
WHO/LAB/93.1,1993
Publication link - https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/61077
ICSH Category: Recommendations
First Published: 1993
Publisher: WHO Iris
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