Evaluation of the BD Vacutainer® PST™ II Blood Collection Tube for special chemistry analytes

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 358-361

  Chance, Jeffrey ^a   Berube, Julie ^a   Vandersmissen, Marita ^b   Blanckaert, Norbert ^b  

^a BD Technologies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Heparin plasma; Immunoassay; Plasma separator tube; Special chemistry; Stability; Turn around time

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FERRITIN; FOLIC ACID; FOLLITROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBE; VEIN PUNCTURE;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; HUMANS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 63849310153     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2009.072     Document Type: Article

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