Preanalytical mixing of whole-blood specimens in the context of the athlete passport

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-13

  Ashenden, Michael ^a   Clarke, Anthea ^b   Sharpe, Ken ^c   D'Onofrio, Giuseppe ^d   Allbon, Graeme ^b   Gore, Christopher J ^b,e  

^a SIAB Research   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; DOPING; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOMOGENATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BENCHMARKING; BLOOD CELL COUNT; DOPING IN SPORTS; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUEENSLAND; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84355161613     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2011-200269     Document Type: Article

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