Prospects of harmonisation of European external quality assessment schemes in occupational and environmental laboratory medicine

Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanita

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 295-307

  Taylor, Andrew ^a   Patriarca, Marina ^b   Menditto, Antonio ^b   Morisi, Gino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Europe; External quality assessment schemes; Harmonisation; Occupational and environmental laboratory medicine

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EUROPE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARD; URINE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE; EUROPE; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUES; TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 0029681735     PISSN: 00212571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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