Are equally spaced specimen collections necessary to assess biological variation? Evidence from renal transplant recipients

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 301, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 79-85

  Biosca, Carmen ^a   Ricós, Carmen ^b   Jiménez, Carlos Víctor ^c   Lauzurica, Ricardo ^a   Galimany, Román ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^c Laboratori Clinic Barcelones   (Spain)

Author keywords

Index of individuality; Monitoring; Renal function; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0033804629     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(00)00346-6     Document Type: Article

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