External quality assessment schemes for real-time PCR: A statistical procedure to corrective actions

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 717-721

  Verderio, Paolo ^a   Ramsden, Simon C ^b   Orlando, Claudio ^c   Pizzamiglio, Sara ^a   Paradiso, Angelo ^d   Neumaier, Michael ^e   Pazzagli, Mario ^c   Marubini, Ettore ^f  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE GIOVANNI PAOLO II   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Control chart; Corrective actions; External quality assessment (EQA); Process modifying; Real time PCR; Statistical procedure

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; CALIBRATION; DNA DETERMINATION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 44349102592     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2008.112     Document Type: Letter

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