Expressing analytical performance from multi-sample evaluation in laboratory EQA

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1509-1516

  Thelen, Marc H M ^a   Jansen, Rob T P ^b   Weykamp, Cas W ^b   Steigstra, Herman ^a,b   Meijer, Ron ^b   Cobbaert, Christa M ^a,c  

^a AMPHIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

analytical performance specifications; bias; external quality assessment; imprecision

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT SYSTEM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; LABORATORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE DATABASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; STANDARDS;

CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; LABORATORIES; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85020523110     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2016-0970     Document Type: Article

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