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