Influence of the needle bore size used for collecting venous blood samples on routine clinical chemistry testing

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1009-1014

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a,b   Salvagno, Gian Luca ^a   Montagnana, Martina ^a   Brocco, Giorgio ^a   Guidi, Gian Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical chemistry; Laboratory testing; Needle; Preanalytic variability; Quality

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; CREATINE KINASE; ENZYME; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MAGNESIUM; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN; SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; VENOUS BLOOD;

ADULT; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDLES; VEINS;

EID: 33746617367     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14346621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2006.172     Document Type: Article

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