Reference Intervals A User's Guide
Langue : Anglais
Auteur : HORN Paul
This book describes reference intervals and their use in the clinical
laboratory setting. Intended for those who work in the area of laboratory
medicine, "Reference Intervals" addresses the common methods and
limitations of deriving and interpreting reference intervals and covers
the following topics: history and use of the reference interval;
description of the current standards; real-world constraints and
solutions; statistical modeling of reference intervals; how to deal with
outliers and/or small samples; description of robust reference intervals;
and, the transference problem. The accompanying CD-ROM contains 264 tables
of reference intervals, based on physician-determined healthy individuals,
covering 33 analytes and 3 ethnic groups.
Included among these tables are reference intervals based on the Third
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). Also
included are: SAS programs that derive traditional and robust reference
intervals with outliers removed. System Requirements for the CD-ROM are:
Microsoft Windows 98 or above and Microsoft Word 97 or above to view the
NHANES reference intervals; and, SAS Version 8.2 or above to derive
reference intervals from raw data.
Date de parution : 03-2006
Ouvrage de 123 p.
Thèmes de Reference Intervals :
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