The Asian project for collaborative derivation of reference intervals: (1) strategy and major results of standardized analytes

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1429-1442

  Ichihara, Kiyoshi ^a   Ceriotti, Ferruccio ^b   Tam, Tran Huu ^c   Sueyoshi, Shigeo ^d   Poon, Priscilla M K ^e   Thong, Mee Ling ^f   Higashiuesato, Yasushi ^g   Wang, Xuejing ^h   Kataoka, Hiromi ⁱ   Matsubara, Akemi ^j   Shiesh, Shu Chu ^k   Muliaty, Dewi ^l   Kim, Jeong Ho ^m   Watanabe, Masakazu ⁿ   Lam, Christopher W K ^o   Siekmann, Lothar ^p   Lopez, Joseph B ^q   Panteghini, Mauro ^r  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c QC in Medical Laboratories   (Viet Nam)

^d CHIBA CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f NATIONAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Malaysia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^h PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

ⁱ KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^j HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^k NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^l Prodia Clinical Laboratory   (Indonesia)

^m Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

ⁿ BECKMAN COULTER INC   (United States)

^o MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

^p UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^q MAHSA University Bandar Saujana Putra   (Malaysia)

^r UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

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Author keywords

common reference interval; multicenter study; nested ANOVA; regionality; standardization

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; CHOLESTEROL; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; POTASSIUM; PREALBUMIN; SODIUM; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFERRIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNINDEXED DRUG; UREA; URIC ACID;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHINA; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INDONESIA; JAPAN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SOUTH KOREA; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSFERRIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; VIET NAM;

EID: 84882250533     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2012-0421     Document Type: Article

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