To report or not to report: A proposal on how to deal with altered test results in hemolytic samples

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1109-1111

  Cadamuro, Janne ^a   Mrazek, Cornelia ^a   Haschke Becher, Elisabeth ^a   Sandberg, Sverre ^b,c,d  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

hemolysis; patient safety; postanalytics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYSIS ASSAY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT HARM; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; MEDICAL ERROR; METHODOLOGY;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DECISION MAKING; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 85025064584     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2016-1064     Document Type: Article

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