Clinical Laboratory is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of laboratory medicine and transfusion medicine as well as tissue transplantation and hematopoietic, cellular, and gene therapies.

It was established in 1955 as Das ärztliche Laboratorium: Zeitschrift für den Laboratoriumsarzt und die ärztliche Praxis.

The title was changed to Klinisches Labor in 1991 with the English subtitle Clinical Laboratory.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts,[1] Current Contents/Clinical Medicine,[2] Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed,[3] Science Citation Index Expanded,[2] and Scopus.

[5] The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal: