Discordance rate, a new concept for combining diagnostic decisions with analytical performance characteristics. 1. Application in method or sample system comparisons and in defining decision limits

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 347-355

  Haeckel, Rainer ^a   Wosniok, Werner ^b   Puentmann, Isabel ^a  

^a Zentralkrankenhaus   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision limit; Discordance rate; Method comparison; Point of care testing (POCT)

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; CAPILLARY BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIET RESTRICTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PERFORMANCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROVOCATION TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VENOUS BLOOD;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0037253890     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2003.055     Document Type: Article

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