Guidance for storing blood samples in laboratories performing complete blood count with differential

International Journal of Laboratory Hematology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 655-660

  Cornet, Edouard ^a,b   Behier, C ^a   Troussard, X ^a,b  

^a CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Blood cell count; Blood preservation; Laboratories standards; Reproducibility of results; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NEUT X; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; COLD; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METABOLISM; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

HEMOGLOBIN;

BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PRESERVATION; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; COLD TEMPERATURE; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MONOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873295037     PISSN: 17515521     EISSN: 1751553X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-553X.2012.01452.x     Document Type: Article

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