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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 23.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Chim Acta. 2015 Mar 26;445:127–132. doi: 10.1016/j.cca.2015.03.026

Table 1.

TC performance criteria applied to CRMLN lipid reference laboratory using AK RMP.

Lipid Precision criterion Accuracy criterion
TC Coefficient of variation ≤ 1% Bias (deviation from CDC reference value) ± 1%

CRMLN: Cholesterol Reference Method Laboratory Network. AK RMP: Abell–Levy–Brodie–Kendall Reference Measurement Procedure. TC: total cholesterol.

CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.