Verification and Standardization of Blood Cell Counters for Routine Clinical Laboratory Tests

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 183-196

  Verbrugge, Sue Ellen ^a   Huisman, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automated blood cell counter; Clinical hematology laboratory; Hematology analyzers; Standardization; Validation; Verification

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CELL COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMATOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; HEMATOLOGY ANALYZER; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VALIDATION PROCESS; DEVICES; STANDARD; STANDARDS; VALIDATION STUDY;

BLOOD CELL COUNT; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84922419149     PISSN: 02722712     EISSN: 15579832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2014.10.008     Document Type: Review

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