Preliminary evaluation of the Iris IQ™ 200 automated urine analyser

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 967-970

  Alves, Lia ^a   Ballester, Frederic ^a   Camps, Jordi ^a   Joven, Jorge ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI SANT JOAN DE REUS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automated analysers; Method comparison; Urine analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPITHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTURIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEST STRIP; URINALYSIS; URINE SEDIMENT;

EID: 26844543578     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14346621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2005.166     Document Type: Article

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