General introduction, D.W. Chan; automation of immunoassay, D.W. Chan; evaluation; selection of automated immunoassay systems, D.W. Chan; technical evaluation, D.W. Chan; clinical evaluation, D.W. Chan; operational evaluation, D.W. Chan; economical evaluation, D.W. Chan; automated immunoassay systems; introduction to automated systems, D.W. Chan; affinity immunoassay system, D.W. Chan; the AIA-1200 immunoassay system, D.W. Chan; the amerlite immunoassay system, J.D. Faix; the cobas fara 2 analyzer, B. Goldsmith; the cyber-fluor immunoanalyzer, G. Ellis; the DELFIA analyzer, J.D. Faix; the eclipse ICA, W.C. Mahoney, et al; the ES-300 immunoassay system, M.A. Sagona, et al; the IMx system, P.P. chou; the magic lite system and acridinium ester-based immunoassays, J.O'Brien, et al; the OPUS system, L. Miller, et al; the photon-era immunoassay system, R. Frye; the SR-1 immunoassay system, L.M. Dermers; the stratus immunoassay system, S.Kahn and E. Bermes, Jr.; the TDX system, S.H. Wong; the vista immunoassay system, T. Li; immunoassay systems for the physician's office, R.H. Ng.