The Empower project - A new way of assessing and monitoring test comparability and stability

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1197-1204

  De Grande, Linde A C ^a   Goossens, Kenneth ^a   Van Uytfanghe, Katleen ^a   Stöckl, Dietmar ^b   Thienpont, Linda M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b STT Consulting   (Belgium)

Author keywords

analytical population variation; bias; drift; median; moving median; outpatients; quality indicators; shift

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MAGNESIUM; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; URIC ACID;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHLORIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PATIENT MONITORING; PEER GROUP; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FREEZING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; STANDARDS;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICES; FREEZING; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84924994411     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2014-0959     Document Type: Article

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