[Determination of clinical chemical parameters in laboratory animals. Report of the workshop conference of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry held in Bad König/Odenwald, Germany, on the 11th and 12th of October 1974 (author's transl)].

Clinical chemical analyses are carried out in many animal experiments performed for medicinal research. For the evaluation of the analytical results fundamentals which have been tried tested and proven in human medicine are still frequently missing, such as reliability criteria, reference values, condition of specimen collecting and the knowledge of other important influences. The workshop conference of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry therefore prepared an inventory, and the most important problems were discussed with examples; guide-lines were worked out for planning, performance and evaluation of clinical chemical investigations on laboratory animals.