Quality of serum creatinine measurement in light of EQA programs

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 685-688

  Friedecky, Bedrich ^a,c   Kratochvila, Josef ^c,d   Budina, Marek ^c   Jabor, Antonin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HRADEC KRALOVE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^c External Quality Assessment SEKK   (Czech Republic)

^d SEKK   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bias; Creatinine; External Quality Assessment (EQA); Glomerular filtration rate; Kidney

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATOR; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLE;

CREATININE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 34248224609     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2007.126     Document Type: Article

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