Estimating the intra- and inter-individual imprecision of manual pipetting

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 962-966

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Lima Oliveira, Gabriel ^a   Brocco, Giorgio ^a   Bassi, Antonella ^a   Salvagno, Gian Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

imprecision; pipette; pipetting; quality; variability

Indexed keywords

DISTILLED WATER;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGIST; CHEMIST; CONTAINER; FEMALE; GRAVIMETRY; HUMAN; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MALE; MANUAL PIPETTING; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICIAN; PIPETTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIST; TASK PERFORMANCE; AGED; DEVICES; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 85020544113     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2016-0810     Document Type: Article

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