Postural change during venous blood collection is a major source of bias in clinical chemistry testing

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 440, Issue , 2015, Pages 164-168

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Salvagno, Gian Luca ^b   Lima Oliveira, Gabriel ^b   Brocco, Giorgio ^b   Danese, Elisa ^b   Guidi, Gian Cesare ^b  

^a ACADEMIC HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical chemistry; Laboratory testing; Plasma volume change; Posture; Preanalytical variability

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CALCIUM; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MAGNESIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHLEBOTOMY; PLASMA VOLUME; SAMPLING BIAS; SITTING; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; VENOUS BLOOD; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ADULT; BILIRUBIN; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CALCIUM; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMY; POSTURE; SERUM ALBUMIN; SUPINE POSITION; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84913555800     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2014.11.024     Document Type: Article

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