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Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes 2016; 124(01): 61-62
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1564102
Letter to the Editor
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Standardization of FT4 and Harmonization of TSH Measurements – A Request for Input from Endocrinologists and Other Physicians

L. M. Thienpont
1   Director of the Mass Spectrometry Reference Laboratory LAC at Gent University, Belgium. She is chair of the IFCC C-STFT
,
J. D. Faix
2   Director of Clinical Chemistry and Immunology at Montefiore Medical Center and Clinical Professor of Pathology at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York, NY. He is a member of the IFCC C-STFT
,
G. Beastall
3   Past President at International Federation of Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine
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received 02 July 2015
first decision 02 July 2015

accepted 26 August 2015

Publication Date:
15 September 2015 (online)

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IFCC committee for standardization of thyroid function tests - risk analysis - harmonization - reference intervals
 

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