Implementation of standardization in clinical practice: Not always an easy task

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1237-1241

  Panteghini, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Quality assessment; Reference material; Reference measurement procedure; Result comparability; Standardization; Traceability

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARDIZATION;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84862567741     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.791     Document Type: Article

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