Before defining performance criteria we must agree on what a "qualitative test procedure" is

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 939-941

  Nordin, Gunnar ^a  

^a EQUALIS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

nominal and ordinal scale; quality goal

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PREGNANCY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE TEST; QUALITY CONTROL; RAPID TEST; SCREENING TEST; TEST STRIP; URINALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; RISK; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK;

EID: 84929104871     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2015-0005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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8. Hyltoft Petersen P, Gade Christensen N, Sandberg S, Nordin G, Pedersen M, Nordic Control Organizations. How to deal with dichotomous tests? Application of a rankit ordinal scale model with examples from the Nordic ordinal scale project on screening tests. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 2008;68:298-311.