Towards more complete specifications for acceptable analytical performance - A plea for error grid analysis

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1127-1130

  Krouwer, Jan S ^a   Cembrowski, George S ^b  

^a Krouwer Consulting   (United States)

^b ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

error grids; FMEA; FRACAS; specifications; total error

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ERROR GRID; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79960221324     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.610     Document Type: Article

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