Ensuring quality control of point-of-care technologies: Effects of dynamic temperature and humidity stresses on glucose quality control solutions

Point of Care

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 147-151

  Tang, Chloe S ^a   Ferguson, William J ^a   Louie, Richard F ^a   Vy, John Tuan H ^a   Sumner, Stephanie L ^a   Kost, Gerald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

austere environments and quality assurance; disaster preparedness; hurricane Katrina; medical errors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865752972     PISSN: 1533029X     EISSN: 15330303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/POC.0b013e318265f38a     Document Type: Article

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