Serum iron and iron-binding capacity: A round-robin interlaboratory comparison study

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1672-1675

  Blanck, Heidi Michels ^a,d   Pfeiffer, Christine M ^b   Caudill, Samuel P ^b   Reyes, Michele ^a   Gunter, Elaine W ^b   Imperatore, Giuseppina ^a   Van Assendelft, Onno W ^c   Strider, Sonya ^b   Dearth, Tracy ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d MS K 26 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; TRANSFERRIN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY TEST; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD PROTEINS; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMANS; IRON; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; LABORATORIES; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141504228     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/49.10.1672     Document Type: Article

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