Functional sensitivity of seven automated thyroid stimulating hormone immunoassays

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 412, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 2336-2339

  Owen, William E ^a   Gantzer, Mary Lou ^b   Lyons, Jeremy M ^b   Rockwood, Alan L ^c   Roberts, William L ^c  

^a ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemiluminescent immunoassay; Functional sensitivity; Imprecision; TSH

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNOASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 80053621320     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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