Reporting standards for Bland–Altman agreement analysis in laboratory research: a cross-sectional survey of current practice

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 382-386

  Chhapola, Viswas ^a   Kanwal, Sandeep Kumar ^a   Brar, Rekha ^b  

^a LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b ESI   (India)

Author keywords

agreement analysis; B A method; Bland Altman; laboratory research; method comparison

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLAND ALTMAN AGREEMENT ANALYSIS; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; STANDARD; STANDARDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 84930447466     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 17581001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004563214553438     Document Type: Article

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