Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Method Validation in Chromatographic Applications

Chromatographic Methods in Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-14

  Merves, Michele L ^a   Goldberger, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP); Chemical testing in biological matrices; Control data and cumulative sum control chart; External quality assurance (EQA) of clinical laboratory methods; Internal quality assurance and control procedures; Lower limit of detection (LLOD) and lower limit of quantitation (LLOQ); Professional organizations NACB, NIST, ASCP, CLSI, IFCC and ISO; Quality assurance (QA) encompassing quality control; Quality assurance and quality control issues facing clinical laboratories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866900875     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470023129.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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