External quality assessment of hormone determinations

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 803-822

  Sturgeon, Catharine M ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

accreditation; clinical laboratory audit; endocrine tests; external quality assessment; proficiency testing

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; CALCITONIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GASTRIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HEPATITIS B ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIGEN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PEGVISOMANT; PEPTIDE HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN;

ACCREDITATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL LABORATORY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY CONTROL;

ACCREDITATION; CLINICAL & LABORATORY AUDIT; ENDOCRINE TESTS; EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT; PROFICIENCY TESTING;

HORMONES; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84888379084     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2013.08.009     Document Type: Review

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