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Frozen serum sample pool should not be used as internal quality assessment for lipemia (L) index

  • Alen Vrtaric ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Marijana Miler ORCID logo , Ivana Celap ORCID logo and Nora Nikolac Gabaj ORCID logo

Corresponding author: Alen Vrtaric, Working Group for Preanalytical Phase of the Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia; and Department of Clinical Chemistry, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Vinogradska cesta 29, Zagreb, Croatia, Phone: +385 1 3787 184, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Zagreb for providing materials (Bio-Rad Liquichek Serum Indices control samples) for this evaluation.

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Not applicable.

  5. Ethical approval: Not applicable.

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Received: 2022-07-05
Accepted: 2022-11-29
Published Online: 2022-12-08
Published in Print: 2023-05-25

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