A new approach for the determination of reference intervals from hospital-based data

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 405, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 43-48

  Concordet, D ^a   Geffre A ^a   Braun, J P ^a   Trumel, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

E.M. algorithm; Hospital based reference interval; Indirect method

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; THYROTROPIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; GOLD STANDARD; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREATINE; DOGS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 67349250110     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2009.03.057     Document Type: Article

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