Determination of reference intervals for 26 commonly measured biochemical analytes with consideration of long-term within-individual variation

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 691-698

  Matsubara, Akemi ^a   Ichihara, Kiyoshi ^b   Fukutani, Shunji ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analytical variation; Between individual variation; Bootstrap method; Latent abnormal values exclusion method; Within individual variation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL LABORATORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME;

EID: 44349134598     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2008.140     Document Type: Article

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