Reduction of blood loss from laboratory testing in hospitalized adult patients using small-volume (pediatric) tubes

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1916-1919

  Sanchez Giron, Francisco ^a,b   Alvarez Mora, Francisco ^a,c  

^a Medica Sur   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE MEDICINA GENÓMICA   (Mexico)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57349104722     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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