Does routine repeat testing of critical values offer any advantage over single testing?

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 440-444

  Toll, Adam D ^a   Liu, Jennifer M ^a   Gulati, Gene ^a   Behling, Eric M ^b   Kocher, William D ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79955109819     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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