Evaluation of the performance of a micromethod for measuring urinary iodine by using six sigma quality metrics

Annals of Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 319-325

  Hussain, Husniza ^a   Khalid, Norhayati Mustafa ^a   Selamat, Rusidah ^b   Nazaimoon, Wan Mohamud Wan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Method acceptability; Method evaluation; Quality control; Sigma metrics; Urinary iodine

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; LABORATORY; METHOD ACCEPTABILITY; METHOD EVALUATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGMA METRICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STANDARD; URINALYSIS; URINARY IODINE; URINE;

METHOD ACCEPTABILITY; METHOD EVALUATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGMA METRICS; URINARY IODINE;

HUMANS; IODINE; LABORATORIES; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84883762811     PISSN: 22343806     EISSN: 22343814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3343/alm.2013.33.5.319     Document Type: Article

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