Performance of the automated and rapid STA Liatest D-dimer on the STA-R analyzer

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 165-170

  Waser, Gregor ^a   Kathriner, Silvio ^a   Wuillemin, Walter A ^a  

^a Central Hematology Laboratory   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

D dimer testing; Deep venous thrombosis; Diagnostic strategy; STA Liatest

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIMERIZATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG PHLEBOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMATION; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 19344378049     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2004.12.003     Document Type: Article

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