Influence of index of individuality on false positives in repeated sampling from healthy individuals

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 160-165

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

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biological set point; Biological variation, between subject; Biological variation, within subject; Decision limits; Imprecision; Reference intervals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH STATUS; INDEX OF INDIVIDUALITY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; SAMPLE; SAMPLING; SCREENING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0035044109     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2001.027     Document Type: Article

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