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Research Article

Routine internal- and external-quality control data in clinical laboratories for estimating measurement and diagnostic uncertainty using GUM principles

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Pages 212-220 | Received 19 Sep 2011, Accepted 28 Nov 2011, Published online: 10 Jan 2012

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