Generic scheme for independent performance assessment in the molecular biology laboratory

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1553-1559

  Birch, Lyndsey ^a   English, Claire A ^a   Burns, Malcolm ^a   Keer, Jacquie T ^a  

^a LGC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4344586244     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2003.029454     Document Type: Article

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