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External quality assessment for prothrombin time/international normalised ratio using point‐of‐care devices: Split ‐ sample or conventional external quality assessment using control samples?

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Pages 673-675 | Received 22 Feb 2007, Accepted 27 Feb 2007, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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