Open AccessScreening for Interference in Immunoassays
Author(s) -
Jane F. Emerson,
Gilda Ngo,
Scott S. Emerson
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/49.7.1163
Subject(s) - serial dilution , immunoassay , medicine , confidence interval , mcnemar's test , antibody , immunology , pathology , mathematics , statistics , alternative medicine
The presence of interfering substances in patient samples submitted for immunoassay cannot be reliably anticipated. We therefore evaluated three interference screening techniques and estimated the prevalence of interfering substances as defined by positive outcomes with these protocols.
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