Need for revisiting the concept of reference values

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 589-595

  Henny, J ^a   Petitclerc, C ^a   Fuentes Arderiu, X ^a   Petersen, P H ^a   Queralto, J M ^a   Schiele, F ^a   Siest, G ^a  

^a Centre de Medecine Preventive   (France)

Author keywords

Biological variability; Decision limits; Reference limits; Reference values

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEVICE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LABORATORY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; POPULATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033824556     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2000.085     Document Type: Article

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