Are discard tubes necessary in coagulation studies?

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 530-533

  Adcock, Dorothy M ^a,b,c   Kressin, David C ^d   Marlar, Richard A ^b  

^a University of Colorado Health Sciences Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Permanente Laboratory   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; DEVICE; HEMATOLOGY; LABORATORY TEST; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHLEBOTOMY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; STANDARD; TUBE;

EID: 0030857330     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/labmed/28.8.530     Document Type: Article

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