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Karen Marie Whitham, Anthony Milford-Ward

External Quality Assessment of Bone Metabolism Marker Assays. Initial Experiences in a UK NEQAS Programme

This paper reports on a pilot external quality assessment scheme for bone markers including serum bone alkaline phosphatase and procollagen 1-carboxy terminal propeptide together with urine deoxypyridinoline, N- and C-telopeptides. The data shows poor numerical agreement between commercial assays, between-laboratory imprecision that could be improved, and the need for international standardisation of assays.

Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1434-6621
Volume: 38, 11/2000
Pages: 1121 - 1124

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