Improved flagging rates on the sysmex XE-5000 compared with the XE-2100 reduce the number of manual film reviews and increase laboratory productivity

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 309-316

  Briggs, Carol J ^a   Linssen, Joachim ^b   Longair, Ian ^a   Machin, Samuel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b SYSMEX CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Flags; Microscopic review; Sysmex XE 5000

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; BASOPHIL; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL FLAGGING; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOBLAST; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; EFFICIENCY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79960974715     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCPDLR4KGKAFW4W     Document Type: Article

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