A model for setting analytical quality specifications and design of control for measurements on the ordinal scale

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 545-551

  Petersen, P H ^a   Sandberg, S ^a   Fraser, C G ^a   Goldschmidt, H ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Analytical goals; Assessment of laboratories; Assessment of methods; Dry chemistry tests; Probit in tansformation; Semi quantitative tests

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DATA ANALYSIS; LEUKOCYTE; MEASUREMENT; PARALLEL DESIGN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033892874     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2000.080     Document Type: Article

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