Effect of blood collection tubes on the incidence of artifactual hyperkalemia on patient samples from an outreach clinic

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 413, Issue 19-20, 2012, Pages 1454-1458

  Babic, Nikolina ^a   Zibrat, Steven ^a   Gordon, Ilyssa O ^a   Lee, Christine C ^a   Yeo, Kiang Teck J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasma potassium; Pseudohyperkalemia; Specimen transport

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM ION;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; INCIDENCE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHLEBOTOMY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; SIMULATION; TUBE;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CENTRIFUGATION; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; HYPERKALEMIA; PHLEBOTOMY; POTASSIUM; QUALITY CONTROL; TIME FACTORS;

MENTHA;

EID: 84862591418     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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