Differences between multifibrin U and conventional Clauss fibrinogen assays: Data from UK National External Quality Assessment Scheme surveys

Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 388-390

  Jennings, Ian ^a,b   Kitchen, Dianne P ^a   Woods, Timothy A L ^a   Kitchen, Steve ^a   Walker, Isobel D ^a  

^a Rutledge Mews   (United Kingdom)

^b UK NEQAS for Blood Coagulation   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN;

BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION;

BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; CALIBRATION; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 68149117563     PISSN: 09575235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBC.0b013e328329e446     Document Type: Letter

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