Compliance of blood sampling procedures with the CLSI H3-A6 guidelines: An observational study by the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) working group for the preanalytical phase (WG-PRE)

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1321-1331

  Simundic, Ana Maria ^a,b   Church, Stephen ^b,c   Cornes, Michael P ^b,d   Grankvist, Kjell ^b,e   Lippi, Giuseppe ^b,f   Nybo, Mads ^b,g   Nikolac, Nora ^a   Van Dongen Lases, Edmee ^b,h   Eker, Pinar ^b,i   Kovalevskaya, Svjetlana ^b,j   Kristensen, Gunn B B ^b,k   Sprongl, Ludek ^b,l   Sumarac, Zorica ^b,m  

^a SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^b Working Group for Preanalytical Phase (WG PRE)   (United States)

^c Medical and Clinical Affairs   (United Kingdom)

^d NEW CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f ACADEMIC HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^g ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^h ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁱ Umraniye Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^j PAVLOV FIRST SAINT PETERSBURG STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^k Norwegian Clinical Chemistry EQA Program   (Norway)

^l Sumperk Hospital   (Czech Republic)

^m CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

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Author keywords

guidelines; observational study; phlebotomy; preanalytical phase; risk analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHLEBOTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; PHLEBOTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84938542371     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2014-1053     Document Type: Article

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