Investigation of a problem with external quality assurance samples for faecal occult blood

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 165-167

  Barlow, Ian M ^a   Del Duca, Clare ^a   Jones, Elizabeth ^a  

^a SCUNTHORPE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; OCCULT BLOOD; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77749246597     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 00045632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/acb.2009.009151     Document Type: Article

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