Improved allocation of costs through analysis of variation in data: Planning of laboratory studies

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 314, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 55-66

  Foster, Theda A ^a,d   Asztalos, Bela F ^b,c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost effective analytic process; Precision; Replicate measurements; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; CALIBRATION; COST; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE;

CHOLESTEROL; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CALIBRATION; CHOLESTEROL; COST ALLOCATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMAN; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0035166469     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(01)00630-1     Document Type: Article

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