V uchebnike po klinicheskoy laboratornoy diagnostike predstavleny osnovnye razdely kompleksnoy meditsinskoy spetsial'nosti KLD v sootvetstvii s trebovaniyami Tipovoy Programmy. V uchebnik vklyucheny materialy po dokazatel'noy laboratornoy meditsine, istorii razvitiya KLD i professional'nykh Assotsiatsiy. Osoboe vnimanie udeleno preanaliticheskomu etapu laboratornykh issledovaniy, voprosam biobezopasnosti i povysheniyu kachestva laboratornykh issledovaniy. Predstavleny sovremennye dannye po laboratornoy gematologii, koagulogii, biokhimii, obshcheklinicheskie issledovaniya, molekulyarno-geneticheskie, gormonal'nye issledovaniya i klinicheskaya laboratornaya diagnostika pri neotlozhnykh sostoyaniyakh. Naryadu s etimi imeyutsya svedeniya po vysokotekhnologicheskim metodam laboratornoy diagnostiki i ikh primeneniyu pri zabolevaniyakh. Tablitsy, risunki i skhemy, privedennye v uchebnike prednaznacheny dlya sistematizatsii i oblegcheniya usvoeniya materiala. Predstavlennye svedeniya osnovany na dannykh sovremennoy nauchnoy literatury i rekomendatsiyakh professional'nykh Assotsiatsiy spetsialistov klinicheskoy laboratornoy diagnostiki.Uchebnik rekomendovan dlya studentov starshikh kursov, internov i rezidentov vysshikh obrazovatel'nykh meditsinskikh uchrezhdeniy.