QC for the future: Laboratory issues - POCT and POL concerns

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 621-625

  Ng, Valerie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; AUTOMATION; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COMPETENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVICE; FUTUROLOGY; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; LABORATORY TEST; OCCULT BLOOD; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PREGNANCY TEST; PROTHROMBIN TIME; QUALITY CONTROL; REIMBURSEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 25844457305     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/7986T3PG123QEPWE     Document Type: Conference Paper

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