Laboratory performance in neonatal bilirubin testing using commutable specimens: A progress report on a college of american pathologists study

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1781-1785

  Lo, Stanley F ^a,b   Jendrzejczak, Bernadine ^a   Doumas, Basil T ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

BILIRUBIN; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55549097802     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1043/1543-2165-132.11.1781     Document Type: Article

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