Clinical biochemistry laboratory rejection rates due to various types of preanalytical errors

Biochemia Medica

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 376-382

  Atay, Aysenur ^a   Demir, Leyla ^a   Cuhadar, Serap ^a   Saglam, Gulcan ^a   Unal, Hulya ^a   Aksun, Saliha ^a   Arslan, Banu ^a   Ozkan, Asuman ^a   Sutcu, Recep ^a  

^a IZMIR KATIP CELEBI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Preanalytical error; Quality indicator; Specimen rejection

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; GLOBULIN; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD COLLECTION TUBE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HEMATOLOGY; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PHLEBOTOMIST; PREANALYTICAL ERROR; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SAMPLING ERROR; URINALYSIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; PILOT STUDY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 84908146707     PISSN: 13300962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11613/BM.2014.040     Document Type: Article

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