Use of 2 years of patient data to estimate intra-laboratory total imprecision of HbA1c measured by multiple HPLC analyzers

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 177-179

  Tran, D V ^a   Cembrowski, George S ^a   Higgins, T N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Dynacare Kasper Medical Laboratories   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Glycohemoglobin; Hemoglobin A1c; Patient data; Precision; Quality control

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AUTOMATION; BLOOD; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; INSTRUMENTATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

AUTOMATION; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 38649088895     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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