The utility of six over-the-counter (home) pregnancy tests

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1317-1322

  Cole, Laurence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FREE BETA SUBUNIT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HYPERGLYCOSYLATED CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREGNANCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINE;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80051721177     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.211     Document Type: Article

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