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2024
July 2024
International Council for Standardization in Haematology (ICSH) Recommendations for the performance and interpretation of activated partial thromboplastin time and prothrombin time mixing tests
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)
ICSH Category:    ICSH Recommendations
Publisher:   Wiley
First Published:   25 February 2024
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Feb 2024
New ICSH technical report 2023: Renewal of the reference material for haemiglobincyanide 19-1-B308 for use in standardization of blood haemoglobin measurements
Cornelis L. Harteveld | Richard McCafferty | Terry Fawcett | Wendy N. Erber, on behalf of International Council for the Standardization in Haematology (ICSH)
ICSH Category:    ICSH Report
Publisher:   Wiley
First Published:   25 February 2024
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Jan 2024
ICSH review of internal quality control policy for blood cell counters
Richard McCafferty, George Cembrowski, Barbara de la Salle, Mingting Peng, Eloisa Urrechaga
ICSH Category:    Review
Publisher:   Wiley
First Published:   12 January 2024
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Jan 2024
ICSH guidance for internal quality control policy for blood cell counters
Richard McCafferty, George Cembrowski, Barbara de la Salle, Mingting Peng, Eloisa Urrechaga
ICSH Category:    Guidance
Publisher:   Wiley
First Published:   08 January 2024
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Dec 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
ICSH Category:    ICSH Report
First Published:   07 December 2023
Publisher:   Wiley
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2023
Nov 2023
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
ICSH Category:    ICSH Editorials
First Published:   28 November 2023
Publisher:   Arch Pathol Lab Med
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Nov 2023
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
ICSH Category:    Recommendations
First Published:   20 November 2023
Publisher:   Wiley
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Nov 2023
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
ICSH Category:    ICSH Guidance
First Published:   15 November 2023
Publisher:   Thieme
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July 2023
ICSH guidance for measurement of factor VIII and factor IX type I inhibitors
Piet Meijer: Drafting manuscript.
Flora Peyvandi, Guy Young, Rajiv Pruthi, Simara de Lima Montalvao and Steve Kitchen 
ICSH Category:    ICSH Guidance
First Published:   07 June 2023
Publisher:   Wiley
Feb 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
ICSH Category:    ICSH Guidance
First Published:   07 March 2023
Publisher:   Wiley
Download:   as a .pdf
2022

2022

Apri 2022
Paul Harrison, Joshua Price, Marie Didembourg, Alan Johnson, Samuel Baldwin, Marcel Veronneau, Daniel Baertlein, Xiaoyong Shi, Samuel Machin
ICSH Category:    Original Article
First Published:   26 April 2022
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis
2021 Publications

2021

Ian J. Mackie - Tracy I. George
ICSH Category:    Editorial
First Published:    11 November 2021
Publisher:   Wiley
Steve Kitchen - Dorothy M. Adcock - Ray Dauer - Ann-Helen Kristoffersen - Giuseppe Lippi - Ian Mackie - Richard A. Marlar - Sukesh Nair
ICSH Category:    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
ICSH Category:    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
ICSH Category:    Recommendations
First Published:    07 June 2021
Publisher:   Wiley
Ian Mackie - Wendy N. Erber
ICSH Category:    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 
ICSH Category:    Recommendations
First Published:    19 March 2021
Publisher:   Thieme
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

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:    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,

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

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

Brent Wood - Dragan Jevremovic - Marie C. Béné - Ming Yan - Patrick Jacobs - Virginia Litwin
ICSH Category:   ICSH Guidelines
First Published:    10 September 2013
Publisher:   Wiley
David Barnett - Raaul Louzao - Peter Gambell - Jitakshi De - Teri Oldaker - Curtis A. Hanson
ICSH Category:   ICSH Guidelines
First Published:    10 September 2013
Publisher:   Wiley
David Barnett - Raaul Louzao - Peter Gambell - Jitakshi De - Teri Oldaker - Curtis A. Hanson
ICSH Category:   ICSH Guidelines
First Published:    10 September 2013
Publisher:   Wiley
Bruce H. Davis - Amar Dasgupta - Steven Kussick - Jin-Yeong Han - Annalee Estrellado
ICSH Category:   ICSH Guidelines
First Published:    10 September 2013
Publisher:   Wiley
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
1999
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.
ICSH Category:   
First Published:    1999
Publisher:   Vox Sang
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1996
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:   
1996
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
1996
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
1995
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
1995
New developments in establishing reference methods in blood cell counting.

Lab Med. 1995; 19:191-201
ICSH Category:   ICSH Editorials
First Published:    1995
Publisher:   Lab Med
1995
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
1995
Hematology Laboratory Management and Practice. S.M. Lewis SM, J.A. Koepke

Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK, 1995
ICSH Category:   ICSH Editorials
First Published:    1995
Publisher:   Butterworth-Heinemann
1995
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
1994
Reference method for the enumeration of erythrocytes and leucocytes.

Clin Lab Haematol. 1994;16:131-138
ICSH Category:   
First Published:    1994
Publisher:   Wiley
1994
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
ICSH Category:   ICSH Guidelines
First Published:    1994
Publisher:   Wiley
1994
1993
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
ICSH Category:   Recommendations
First Published:    1993
Publisher:   Oxford Academic
1993
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
ICSH Category:   Recommendations
First Published:    1993
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis
1993
ICSH recommendations for measurement of erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

J Clin Pathol. 1993;46:198-203
ICSH Category:   Recommendations
First Published:    1993
Publisher:   BMJ Journals
1993
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
ICSH Category:   Recommendations
First Published:    1993
Publisher:   WHO Iris
1993
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