Screening for interference in immunoassays

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1163-1169

  Emerson, Jane F ^a   Ngo, Gilda ^b   Emerson, Scott S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; HYDROCORTISONE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; REAGENT; THYROTROPIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MCNEMAR TEST; MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREVALENCE; SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CROSS REACTIONS; GOATS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOASSAY; MICE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037934622     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/49.7.1163     Document Type: Article

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