Proposal for guidelines to establish common biological reference intervals in large geographical areas for biochemical quantities measured frequently in serum and plasma

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 783-791

  Rustad, Pål ^a   Felding, Peter ^b   Lahti, Ari ^c  

^a Furst Medical Laboratory   (Norway)

^b Copenhagen Gen Practitioners' Lab ^*  (Denmark)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biological reference limit; Reference individual; Reference material; Reference sample

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCULATION; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COOPERATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; MATERIALS HANDLING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFERENCE VALUE; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; HUMANS; REFERENCE VALUES; URINALYSIS;

EID: 4344561289     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2004.131     Document Type: Article

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