Analytical variability in sport hematology: Its importance in an antidoping setting

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 779-782

  Banfi, Giuseppe ^a   Lombardi, Giovanni ^a   Colombini, Alessandra ^a   Lippi, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

analytical variability; antidoping; Bayesian approach; biological variability; blood analyzer systems

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN;

AGE; ALTITUDE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; MARATHON RUNNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RETICULOCYTE; REVIEW; RUGBY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SPORTS MEDICINE;

DOPING IN SPORTS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; SPORTS;

EID: 79954459967     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.125     Document Type: Review

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