Agreement between paired blood gas values in samples transported either by a pneumatic system or by human courier

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1303-1309

  Peter, John Victor ^a   Patole, Shalom ^a   Fleming, Jude Joseph ^a   Selvakumar, Ratnasamy ^a   Graham, Petra L ^b  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

agreement; arterial blood gas; Bland Altman; concordance; pneumatic tube system; point of care testing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LIMIT OF AGREEMENT; LIN CONCORDANCE CORRELATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARAMETER; PNEUMATIC TUBE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; SAMPLE TRANSPORT; SAMPLING; TECHNIQUE; TIME;

BICARBONATES; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CARBON DIOXIDE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 80051717778     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.611     Document Type: Article

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