Items for "specimen collection"

Recommendations for detection and management of unsuitable samples in clinical laboratories

A large body of evidence attests that quality programs developed around the analytical phase of the total testing process would only produce limited improvements, since the large majority of errors encountered in clinical laboratories still prevails within extra-analytical areas of testing, especially in manually intensive preanalytical processes...

Keywords: audit, detection of unsuitable specimens, extra-analytical variability, guidelines and consensus recommendations, laboratory errors, specimen collection