The impact of fist clenching and its maintenance during venipuncture on routine hematology testing

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Lima Oliveira, Gabriel ^a   Guidi, Gian Cesare ^a   Salvagno, Gian Luca ^a   Lippi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

blood specimen collection; clinical laboratory techniques; laboratory variability; medical errors; patient safety; pre analytical phase

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FIST CLENCHING; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NORMAL HUMAN; RED BLOOD CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; VEIN PUNCTURE; HAND; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HAND; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMY;

EID: 85006258610     PISSN: 08878013     EISSN: 10982825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcla.22108     Document Type: Article

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