title: A national Italian survey in hemocytometry: first year report.
abstract: The paper presents the results of the first year of an Italian nation wide quality control programme for hemocytometric tests, involving public laboratories and concerning the following parameters: hemoglobin, erythrocytes, leukocytes (nucleated cells), mean corpuscular volume, platelets and hematocrit. Results are compared principally with those obtained from the French national programme owing to the use of identical blood standards.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina di Laboratorio, Istituto Scientifico H S.Raffaele, Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Banfi
mesh_terms: D006403:Hematologic Tests / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D011786:Quality Control