Blood venous sample collection: Recommendations overview and a checklist to improve quality

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 10-11, 2017, Pages 568-573

  Giavarina, Davide ^a   Lippi, Giuseppe ^b  

^a SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood; Phlebotomy; Quality improvement; Specimen collection; Specimen handling; Standards

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD COLLECTION TUBE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHECKLIST; CONTAINER; CONTAMINATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; INFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAMPLING ERROR; VENOUS BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; DEVICES; LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85013840843     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: 18732933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2017.02.021     Document Type: Review

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