External quality assessment in clinical chemistry: Review of the situation in Croatia with particular reference to equipment

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 667-673

  Juretić, Dubravka ^b   Čepelak, Ivana ^c   Flegar Meštrić, Zlata ^a  

^a University of Zagreb   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Analytical quality; Equipment; External quality assessment

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; PHOSPHATE; UREA;

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CROATIA; EQUIPMENT; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CENTER; LABORATORY; PHOTOMETER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; CROATIA; DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0032845339     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1999.104     Document Type: Article

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