Critical pre-examination variables in the hemostasis laboratory and their quality indicators

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 1315-1320

  Adcock, Dorothy M ^a   Favaloro, Emmanuel J ^b   Lippi, Giuseppe ^c  

^a LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coagulation testing; Laboratory errors; Pre examination variables; Preanalytical variables; Quality indicators

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; BLOOD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY;

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ANTICOAGULANTS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84994744882     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: 18732933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2016.08.022     Document Type: Article

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