Strategies to define performance specifications in laboratory medicine: 3 years on from the Milan Strategic Conference

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1849-1856

  Panteghini, Mauro ^a   Ceriotti, Ferruccio ^b   Jones, Graham ^c   Oosterhuis, Wytze ^d   Plebani, Mario ^e   Sandberg, Sverre ^f,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Sittard Geleen Heerlen   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^f Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^h HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

biological variation; outcome; performance specifications

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CLINICAL MEDICINE; LABORATORY; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CLINICAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85032993698     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2017-0772     Document Type: Article

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