The usefulness of blast flags on the sysmex XE-5000 is questionable

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 633-640

  Eilertsen, Heidi ^a,c   Vøllestad, Nina K ^b   Hagve, Tor Arne ^a,b  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Blast flag; Q values; Reliability; Sysmex XE 5000

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HEMATOLOGY ANALYZER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL DEVICE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84878024387     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCPDUZVRN5VY9WZ     Document Type: Article

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