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Commutability of proficiency testing (PT): status of the matrix-related bias in general clinical chemistry

  • So Young Kim EMAIL logo , Sail Chun , Woochang Lee and Won-Ki Min

Corresponding author: So Young Kim, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center, Pungnap2-Dong, Songpa-Gu, Seoul 138–736, Republic of Korea

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Received: 2013-02-13
Accepted: 2013-02-20
Published Online: 2013-04-13
Published in Print: 2013-08-01

©2013 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston

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