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Management of refined and personalized newborn blood specimen collection [PDF]

Practical Laboratory Medicine
Background: Iatrogenic blood loss is an important cause of neonatal anemia. In this study, a spreadsheet tool was developed to reduce blood collection, providing a new idea for the prevention of iatrogenic blood loss in newborns.
Hui-Bin Huang, Yu-Bin Lin, Jin-Hua Chen, Min Zhu, Li-Jin Chen, Wang Ye, Lin-Hua Luo, Hui-ming Ye   +7 more
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Clinical application of a fully automated blood collection robot and its assessment of blood collection quality of anticoagulant specimens

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
Background and objectivesTo investigate the application of intelligent puncture blood collection robots in anticoagulated blood specimens, the satisfaction of subjects with the two blood collection methods, and the feasibility of intelligent blood ...
Chong Wang, Meixiu Gu, Jie Zhu, Shuo Yang, Wenjia Tang, Zizhong Liu, Baishen Pan, Beili Wang, Wei Guo, Wei Guo, Wei Guo, Wei Guo   +11 more
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Evaluation of Specimen Types for Pima CD4 Point-of-Care Testing: Advantages of Fingerstick Blood Collection into an EDTA Microtube. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
INTRODUCTION:Effective point-of-care testing (POCT) is reliant on optimal specimen collection, quality assured testing, and expedited return of results.
Luciana Kohatsu, Omotayo Bolu, Mary E Schmitz, Karen Chang, Ruth Lemwayi, Nichole Arnett, Michael Mwasekaga, John Nkengasong, Fausta Mosha, Larry E Westerman   +9 more
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Paired Capillary and Venous Serum Specimen Agreement for Protein Biomarker Measurements and Risk Category Outputs in a Multi-Cancer Early Detection Tool [PDF]

Diagnostics
Background: Capillary blood sampling may improve access to multi-cancer early detection (MCED) by enabling less invasive and more decentralized specimen collection.
Hsin-Yao Wang, Wan-Ying Lin, Chenfei Zhou, Jennifer Q. L. Xu, Zayd Anwar, Jia-Ruei Yu, Michael S. Lebowitz   +6 more
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Painless Capillary Blood Collection: A Rapid Evaluation of the Onflow Device

Diagnostics, 2023
Blood-based diagnostics are critical for many medical decisions, but mostly rely on venepuncture, which can be inconvenient and painful. The Onflow Serum Gel (Loop Medical SA, Vaud, Lausanne, Switzerland) is a novel blood collection device that utilises ...
Lara Dominique Noble, Caitlin Dixon, Alison Moran, Charlotte Trottet, Mohammed Majam, Shameema Ismail, Vanessa Tiyamike Msolomba, Kegomoditswe Mathobela, Arthur Queval, Jaya George, Lesley Erica Scott, Wendy Susan Stevens   +11 more
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Consistency in the Assessment of Dried Blood Spot Specimen Size and Quality in U.K. Newborn Screening Laboratories

International Journal of Neonatal Screening
In 2015, U.K. newborn screening (NBS) laboratory guidelines were introduced to standardize dried blood spot (DBS) specimen quality acceptance and specify a minimum acceptable DBS diameter of ≥7 mm. The UK ‘acceptable’ avoidable repeat rate (AVRR) is ≤2%.
Stuart J. Moat, James R. Bonham, Christine Cavanagh, Margaret Birch, Caroline Griffith, Lynette Shakespeare, Clare Le Masurier, Claire Manfredonia, Beverly Hird, Philippa Goddard, Sarah Smith, Laura Wainwright, Rachel S. Carling, Jennifer Cundick, Fiona Jenkinson, Catherine Collingwood, Nick Flynn, Nazia Taj, Mehdi Mirzazadeh, Tejswurree Ramgoolam, Liz Robinson, Amy Headley, Tessa Morgan, David Elliman, Lesley Tetlow   +24 more
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BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION TUBES FOR COAGULATION TESTS [PDF]

Lancet, The, 1979
E K Blackburn
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Effect of delayed sample draw after blood collection for haemoglobin test in South Korea

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2023
Between April and May 2022, 10 healthy adult non-patients were recruited from Pusan National University Hospital. Venous blood drawn into a syringe was transferred into test tubes with a zero-to-45-minute delay.
Hyerim Kim, Jongmin Kim
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Fasting state requirements for blood sampling: a survey of patients in Cantonal Hospital Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina [PDF]

Medicinski Glasnik, 2021
Aim To explore patient’s awareness and appliance of the fasting state requirements for blood sampling. Methods This observational survey was performed at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Immunology Diagnostics, Cantonal Hospital Zenica, from
Damira Kadić, Aida Avdagić-Ismić, Sabaheta Hasić, Ferhana Bošnjak   +3 more
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Role of specimen collection in preanalytical variation of metalloproteinases and their inhibitors in blood [PDF]

Clinical Chemistry, 1996
Klaus Jung, Dietmar Schnorr, Stefan Loening   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources