Reference intervals: Are interlaboratory differences appropriate?

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 11-12, 1999, Pages 1131-1133

  Zardo, Lorena ^a   Secchiero, Sandra ^a   Sciacovelli, Laura ^a   Bonvicini, Piero ^b   Plebani, Mario ^a,b  

^a Centro di Ricerca Biomedica   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; SODIUM;

ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DATA ANALYSIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0033390595     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.1999.165     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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3. Gowans EMS, Petersen PH, Blaabjerg O, Horder M. Analytical goals for the acceptance of common reference intervals for laboratories throughout a geographical area. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1988; 48:757-64.