The truth about quality: medical usefulness and analytical reliability of laboratory tests
Authors:
- James O WestgardJWJames O Westgard
- Teresa DarcyTDTeresa Darcy
- 1 August 2004
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Clinica Chimica Acta
- Vol. 346 (1) , 3-11
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