Total error vs. measurement uncertainty: Revolution or evolution

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 235-239

  Oosterhuis, Wytze P ^a   Theodorsson, Elvar ^b  

^a Zuyderland Medical Centre   (Netherlands)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allowable total error; analytical performance goals; error; total analytical error; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICS; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; RANDOM ERROR; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOTAL ALLOWABLE ERROR; TOTAL ERROR; VALIDATION PROCESS; LABORATORY TEST; STANDARDS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84955269567     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2015-0997     Document Type: Article

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