The national academy of clinical biochemistry laboratory medicine evidence-based practice guidelines for point of care testing in evaluation of renal analytes

Point of Care

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 261-264

  Alzahrani, Abdulrahman S ^a   Clarke, William ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

NACB; Point of care testing; Renal analytes

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349118688     PISSN: 1533029X     EISSN: 15330303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/poc.0b013e3180dc8d4a     Document Type: Review

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