Quality and reliability of routine coagulation testing: Can we trust that sample?

Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 513-519

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a,b   Franchini, Massimo ^b   Montagnana, Martina ^a   Salvagno, Gian Luca ^a   Poli, Giovanni ^a   Guidi, Gian Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coagulation testing; Preanalytic variability; Quality

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRIFUGATION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEMOCONCENTRATION; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; THROMBOCYTE POOR PLASMA; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; VASCULAR ACCESS; VENOUS STASIS;

BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 33748936698     PISSN: 09575235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mbc.0000245290.57021.46     Document Type: Review

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