Analytic bias of thyroid function tests: analysis of a College of American Pathologists fresh frozen serum pool by 3900 clinical laboratories.

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Published in Arch Pathol Lab Med on March 01, 2005

Authors

Bernard W Steele1, Edward Wang, George G Klee, Linda M Thienpont, Steven J Soldin, Lori J Sokoll, William E Winter, Susan A Fuhrman, Ronald J Elin

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pathology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Fla, USA. bsteele@med.miami.edu

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