General strategies to set quality specifications for reliability performance characteristics

Authors
Fraser, CG
Citation
Cg. Fraser, General strategies to set quality specifications for reliability performance characteristics, SC J CL INV, 59(7), 1999, pp. 487-490
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Research/Laboratory Medicine & Medical Tecnology","Medical Research General Topics
Journal title
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL & LABORATORY INVESTIGATION
ISSN journal
00365513 → ACNP
Volume
59
Issue
7
Year of publication
1999
Pages
487 - 490
Database
ISI
SICI code
0036-5513(199911)59:7<487:GSTSQS>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Many strategies have been promulgated for the setting of quality specificat ions in laboratory medicine. Based on the analysis of the effect of error o n clinical decision making, general quality specifications for precision, b ias, the allowable difference between two analytical methods, drugs, fixed Limits for use in external quality assessment and reference methods seem be st derived from components of biological variation.