ABSTRACT

In an editorial in Clinical Chemistry, Kinter [1] questioned why MS is not used more commonly in routine analysis in the clinical laboratory. He indicated that the answer to this question is based on several misconceptions, including the following: (a) MS is not amenable to most analytes of interest in clinical assays, (b) MS is too slow and difficult to automate for the sample throughput needed in the clinical laboratory, (c) MS is too expensive, and (d) MS is difficult to operate. Kinter [1] then takes the edge off these arguments. With the material collected in this book, we could do the same.