Outliers as a cause of false cardiac troponin results: Investigating the robustness of 4 contemporary assays

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 710-718

  Pretorius, Carel J ^a   Dimeski, Goce ^a   O'Rourke, Peter K ^b   Marquart, Louise ^b   Tyack, Shirley A ^a   Wilgen, Urs ^a   Ungerer, Jacobus P J ^a  

^a Pathology Queensland ^*  (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN T;

ACCESS2; ADVIA CENTAUR XP; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYZER; ARCHITECT I2000SR; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; COBAS E601; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; PROBABILITY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MYOCARDIUM; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

EID: 79956145663     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2010.159830     Document Type: Article

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