Performance and comparability of laboratory methods for measuring ferritin concentrations in human serum or plasma: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Garcia Casal, Maria N ^a   Peña Rosas, Juan P ^a   Urrechaga, Eloisa ^b   Escanero, Jesus F ^c   Huo, Junsheng ^d   Martinez, Ricardo X ^a   Lopez Perez, Lucero ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b HOSPITAL DE GALDAKAO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON;

CALIBRATION; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRON DEFICIENCY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; META ANALYSIS; PLASMA; PROCEDURES; SERUM; STANDARD; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FERRITINS; HUMANS; IRON; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PLASMA; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SERUM;

EID: 85046641290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196576     Document Type: Review

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