Current 25-hydroxyvitamin D assays: Do they pass the test?

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 413, Issue 13-14, 2012, Pages 1127-1134

  Ong, Lizhen ^a   Saw, Sharon ^a   Sahabdeen, Noorulhijjah Bte ^a   Tey, Kiat Teng ^a   Ho, Chung Shun ^b   Sethi, Sunil Kumar ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

25OHD testing; Accuracy; Correlation; Precision; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYERGOCALCIFEROL; 25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCIFEDIOL; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D BINDING PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; STANDARDIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UNCERTAINTY; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84860353761     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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