Allowable Total Error

Allowable Total Error:
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1 Administrative Information
Analyte			Units
Instrument or Method
2 Published Goals for Allowable Total Error
Based on	Percent	Conc Units
Clinical Requirements			What's this?
Biological Variation			Lookup (you want the ATE% column)
Regulatory Requirement			+/-3 SD Lookup
3 PT and Low Sample Statistics
Specimen	PT SURVEY					Low Sample
Specimen	1	2	3	4	5	Low Sample
Mean
SD
4 Reportable Range, Reference Interval, Critical Values
	Lower	Upper
Reportable Range
Reference Interval
Other Critical Values