Controversies on quotient reporting to standardize laboratory results

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1199-1201

  Haeckel, Rainer ^a   Wosniok, Werner ^b  

^a Bremer Zentrum fur Laboratoriumsmedizin   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

laboratory results; traceability

Indexed keywords

LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 77955445780     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2010.270     Document Type: Letter

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