Colour coding for blood collection tube closures-a call for harmonisation

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 371-376

  Simundic, Ana Maria ^a   Cornes, Michael P ^b   Grankvist, Kjell ^c   Lippi, Giuseppe ^d   Nybo, Mads ^e   Ceriotti, Ferruccio ^f   Theodorsson, Elvar ^g   Panteghini, Mauro ^h  

^a SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^b NEW CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ACADEMIC HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

blood specimen collection; harmonization; quality of health care; standards; venipuncture

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; BLOOD COLLECTION TUBE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CODING; COLOR; COLOR CODING; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK; STANDARD; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; STANDARDS;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; COLOR; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; PATIENT SAFETY;

EID: 84923111812     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2014-0927     Document Type: Review

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