Accuracy of Cholesterol Measurements in Italian Clinical Laboratories.Joint Project GISSI Prevention — Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 311-316

  Graziani, Maria Stella ^a   Marchetti, Cristina ^a   Righetti, Gabriella ^a   Ceriotti, Ferruccio ^b   Carobene, Anna ^b   Modenese, Annalisa ^b   Ferrero, Carlo ^b   Giorgi, Elena De ^b   Franzin, Michela ^b   Brambilla, Paolo ^c   Bertona, Maria ^c   Giannone, Daniela ^c   Mocarelli, Paolo ^c   Marocchi, Alessandro ^d   Prencipe, Lorenzo ^d   Franzini, Carlo ^e   Luraschi, Paola ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Servizio Universitario di Patologia Clinica   (Japan)

^d OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CRYOPRESERVATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ITALY; LABORATORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; ITALY; LABORATORIES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030917469     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm.1997.35.4.311     Document Type: Article

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