Permissible limits for uncertainty of measurement in laboratory medicine

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1161-1171

  Haeckel, Rainer ^a   Wosniok, Werner ^b   Gurr, Ebrhard ^c   Peil, Burkhard ^d  

^a KLINIKUM BREMEN MITTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c Abteilung Klinische Chemie und Zentrallabor Am Klinikum Links der Weser   (Germany)

^d DACH Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Chemie GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

measurement uncertainty; permissible bias; permissible imprecision

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; LABORATORY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICES; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CLINICAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84929098713     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2014-0874     Document Type: Review

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