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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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- Public Library of Science
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- PLoS One More from this journal
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- 15
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- 2
- Article number:
- e0228687
- Publication date:
- 2020-02-03
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- 2020-01-20
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1932-6203
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English
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1084193
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