Performance standards for allergen skin testing: An approach to proficiency testing

Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 321-328

  Turkeltaub, P C ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ALLERGY; ANALYTIC METHOD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; PATCH TEST; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SKIN TEST; STANDARD; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0034975274     PISSN: 08898561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-8561(05)70209-5     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Practice parameters for allergy diagnostic testing
2. In vivo methods for study of allergy skin tests, techniques, and interpretation
3. The evaluation and limitations of accuracy and precision standards
4. Allergen standardization and skin tests
5. Assessment of human allergic diseases
6. Are physicians' office laboratory results of comparable quality to those produced in other laboratory settings?
7. An approach to evaluating proficiency of intradermal testing
8. The analytical performance of six puncture test devices
9. Practice parameters for allergy diagnostic testing
10. International collaborative evaluation of parallel line skin test assay using 1.8 and 0.1 mg/mL histamine base
11. The pattern and kinetics in human skin of erythema and mediators during the acute and late-phase response
12. Skin reactivity to purified pollen allergens in highly ragweed sensitive individuals
13. Improvement in physician's office laboratory practices, 1989-1994
14. Allergenic extracts. II: In vivo standardization
15. Biological standardization of allergenic extracts
16. In vivo methods of standardization
17. Percutaneous and intracutaneous diagnostic tests of IgE-mediated diseases (immediate hypersensitivity)
18. Comparative safety and efficacy of short ragweed extracts differing in potency and composition in the treatment of fall hay fever
19. International collaborative evaluation of the accuracy and precision of relative potency estimated by parallel-line skin test
20. A standardized quantitative skin test assay of allergen potency and stability: Studies on the allergen dose-response curve and effect of wheal and erythema, and patient selection on assay results
21. Assessment of the clinical accuracy of laboratory tests using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) plots, approved guideline
22. Linear regression of minimal detectable concentration: Thyrotropin as an example