Intermethod Correlation Studies
Single site studies: multiple published
- improved precision - CVs %
- intermethod bias, but “clinically insignificant”
Davis et al: AJCP 102:468, 1994
- 8 sites, 11 instruments, 310 blood samples
- IRF and Retic counts compared
College of American Pathologists’ Reticulocyte RT Survey 1994-96
- ɮ,600 participants
- surrogate blood material
- Retic % only reported