Influence of geography on the performance of quality control testing in the Australian Government's point of care testing in general practice trial

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1325-1327

  Shephard, Mark D S ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geography; Imprecision; Point of care testing; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; GENERAL PRACTICE; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; QUALITY CONTROL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; URINALYSIS;

ALBUMINS; AUSTRALIA; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CREATININE; FAMILY PRACTICE; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 67650732386     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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