Feasibility study of the use of frozen human sera in split-sample comparison of immunoassays with candidate reference measurement procedures for total thyroxine and total triiodothyronine measurements

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2303-2311

  Thienpont, Linda M ^a   Van Uytfanghe, Katleen ^a   Marriott, John ^b   Stokes, Peter ^b   Siekmann, Lothar ^c   Kessler, Anja ^c   Bunk, David ^d   Tai, Susan ^d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b LGC   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROXINE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOCUMENTATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FREEZING; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; IMMUNOASSAY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REFERENCE VALUE; SERUM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CRYOPRESERVATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FREEZING; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 28044454732     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2005.058180     Document Type: Article

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