Practical aspects concerning validation and quality control for forensic and clinical bioanalytical quantitative methods

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 279-292

  Wille, Sarah M R ^a   Peters, Frank T ^b   Di Fazio, Vincent ^a   Samyn, Nele ^a  

^a National Institute of Criminalistics and Criminology   (Belgium)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceptance criteria; Bioanalytical toxicology; Experimental set up; Quality control; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957877502     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-011-0775-0     Document Type: Review

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