A marked difference between two populations under mass screening of neonatal TSH and biotinidase activity

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 498-506

  Tanyalçin, Tijen ^a   Eyskens, François ^b   Philips, Eddy ^b   Lefevere, Marc ^b   Büyükgebiz, Benal ^c  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b PCMA (Provinciaal Centr V O)   (Belgium)

^c DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Confidence limits; Mass screening; Reference values

Indexed keywords

BIOTINIDASE; THYROTROPIN;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CALCULATION; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUOROMETRY; MASS SCREENING; POPULATION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 0036827346     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-002-0546-z     Document Type: Article

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