External quality assessment of platelet disorder investigations: Results of international surveys on diagnostic tests for dense granule deficiency and platelet aggregometry interpretation

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 622-631

  Hayward, Catherine P M ^a,b   Moffat, Karen A ^a,b   Plumhoff, Elizabeth ^c   Timleck, Marnie ^a   Hoffman, Suzanne ^d   Spitzer, Ernie ^b   Van Cott, Elizabeth M ^e   Meijer, Piet ^f  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HAMILTON REGIONAL LABORATORY MEDICINE PROGRAM   (Canada)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f ECAT Foundation   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dense granule deficiency; electron microscopy; external quality assurance; light transmission platelet aggregometry; platelet disorders

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSE GRANULE DEFICIENCY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTRON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PLATELET AGGREGOMETRY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE DISORDER;

BLOOD PLATELET DISORDERS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PLATELET FUNCTION TESTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84865864601     PISSN: 00946176     EISSN: 10989064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1319767     Document Type: Article

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