The REALAB Project: A New Method for the Formulation of Reference Intervals Based on Current Data
Open Access
- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Chemistry
- Vol. 51 (7) , 1232-1240
- https://doi.org/10.1373/clinchem.2005.047787
Abstract
Background: In a primary healthcare center concerned more with maintaining wellness than with diagnosing and monitoring illness, it is particularly important to compare patients’ results with reference intervals derived from a matched population by use of defined statistical methods.Keywords
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