Useful measures and models for analytical quality management in medical laboratories

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 223-233

  Westgard, James O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Westgard QC Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; allowable total error (ATE); analytical quality specifications; measurement uncertainty (MU); sigma metric; total analytical error (TAE); traceability

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; TOTAL ANALYTICAL ERROR; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNCERTAINTY; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84955249464     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2015-0710     Document Type: Article

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