Sample to sample carryover: a source of analytical laboratory error and its relevance to integrated clinical chemistry/immunoassay systems.

David A Armbruster; Debra B Alexander

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Sample to sample carryover: a source of analytical laboratory error and its relevance to integrated clinical chemistry/immunoassay systems.

July 5, 2006

Armbruster DA, Alexander DB. Clin Chim Acta. 2006;373(1-2):37-43.

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The investigators present a protocol to measure and assess specimen-to-specimen contamination in large sets of laboratory samples using an integrated system.

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