Guidelines for blood smear preparation and staining procedure for setting up an external quality assessment scheme for blood smear interpretation. Part 1: Control material

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 922-926

  Vives Corrons, Juan Lluis ^a   Albarède, Stephanie ^b   Flandrin, George ^c   Heller, Silke ^d   Horvath, Katalin ^e   Houwen, Berend ^f   Nordin, Gunnar ^g   Sarkani, Erika ^e   Skitek, Milan ^h   Van Blerk, Marjan ⁱ   Libeer, Jean Claude ⁱ  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b Unite Controle de Qualite   (France)

^c Laboratoire Central d'Hematologie   (France)

^d INSTAND   (Germany)

^e QualiCont   (Hungary)

^f ICSH ^*

^g EQUALIS   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

ⁱ SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blood smears; Control samples; External quality assessment; Guidelines

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD STAIN; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; STORAGE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; EUROPE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 4444232493     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2004.149     Document Type: Article

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