Undetected spurious hypernatraemia wastes health-care resources

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-88

  Cornes, Michael P ^a   Ford, Clare ^a   Gama, Rousseau ^a,b  

^a NEW CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SODIUM; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ADULT; ANALYZER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTAMINATION; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; LETTER; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SERUM OSMOLALITY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STAFF TRAINING;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CITRATES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79551490725     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 00045632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/acb.2010.010200     Document Type: Letter

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