To harmonize and standardize: Making measurement results comparable

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 911-913

  Zegers, Ingrid ^a   Schimmel, Heinz ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PLASMA PROTEIN;

CALIBRATION; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EDITORIAL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARDIZATION;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; HUMANS; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 84903748908     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2014.224477     Document Type: Editorial

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