Strategies to set global analytical quality specifications in laboratory medicine: 10 years on from the Stockholm consensus conference

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 323-330

  Petersen, Per Hyltoft ^a,c   Fraser, Callum G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Scottish Bowel Screening Centre Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Analytical bias and imprecision; Analytical goals; Analytical requirements; Laboratory medicine; Matrix effects; Point of care testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953081722     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-009-0630-8     Document Type: Review

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