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Pre-analytical error for three point of care venous blood testing platforms in acute ambulatory settings : a mixed methods service evaluation

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Introduction Point of care blood testing to aid diagnosis is becoming increasingly common in acute ambulatory settings and enables timely investigation of a range of diagnostic markers. However, this testing allows scope for errors in the pre-analytical phase, which depends on the operator handling and transferring specimens correctly. The extent and nature of these pre-analytical errors in clinical settings has not been widely reported. Methods We carried out a convergent parallel mixed-met...

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10.1371/journal.pone.0228687

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Division:
MSD
Sub department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-9928-8934
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
Journal:
PLoS One More from this journal
Volume:
15
Issue:
2
Article number:
e0228687
Publication date:
2020-02-03
Acceptance date:
2020-01-20
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ISSN:
1932-6203
Language:
English
Pubs id:
1084193
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pubs:1084193
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2020-01-31

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