General strategies to set quality specifications for reliability performance characteristics
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation
- Vol. 59 (7) , 487-490
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00365519950185210
Abstract
Many strategies have been promulgated for the setting of quality specifications in laboratory medicine. Based on the analysis of the effect of error on clinical decision making, general quality specifications for precision, bias, the allowable difference between two analytical methods, drugs, fixed limits for use in external quality assessment and reference methods seem best derived from components of biological variation.Keywords
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