Quality control workshops in standardization of sperm concentration and motility assessment in multicentre studies

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 144-149

  Toft, Gunnar ^a   Rignell Hydbom, Anna ^b   Tyrkiel, Ewa ^c   Shvets, Maryna ^d   Giwercman, Aleksander ^e  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^d Kharkov Regional Clinical Centre of Urology and Nephrology   (Ukraine)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Multicentre studies; Quality control; Sperm concentration; Sperm motility; Variance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING; WORKSHOP;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EUROPE; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MALE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 20344375959     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2605.2005.00518.x     Document Type: Article

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