Correction and reporting of potassium results in haemolysed samples

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-123

  Dimeski, Goce ^a   Clague, Alan E ^a   Hickman, Peter E ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; HYPERKALEMIA; MATHEMATICS; POTASSIUM; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 17144371015     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0004563053492739     Document Type: Article

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