Decreasing troponin intralaboratory turnaround time through a process improvement study;Diminuzione del "turnaround time" intralaboratorio della troponina attraverso un processo di miglioramento organizzativo continuo

Biochimica Clinica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 69-71

  Conti, Ivana ^a   Carnevale, Assunta ^a   Pasqualetti, Sara ^a   Birindelli, Sarah ^a   Szoke, Dominika ^a   Dolci, Alberto ^a   Panteghini, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

LETTER; TURNAROUND TIME;

EID: 84964054367     PISSN: 03930564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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