Effect of reporting-interval size on critical difference estimation: Beyond "2.77"

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 880-885

  Jones, Graham Ross Dallas ^a,b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CRITICAL DIFFERENCE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; LABORATORY TEST; PATHOLOGY; REPORTING INTERVAL SIZE; TECHNIQUE;

CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33646377178     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2005.063107     Document Type: Article

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