A pragmatic proposal for permissible limits in external quality assessment schemes with a compromise between biological variation and the state of the art

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 833-839

  Haeckel, Rainer ^a   Wosniok, Werner ^b   Kratochvila, Josef ^c   Carobene, Anna ^d  

^a KLINIKUM BREMEN MITTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c SEKK Pardubice   (Czech Republic)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allowable quality specifications; Biological variation; External quality assessment; Permissible limits

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; CREATINE KINASE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; SODIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84867810684     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2011-0862     Document Type: Review

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