Use of Potassium Concentrations as a Quality-of-Service Metric for Phlebotomists Detects Systematic Preanalytical Biases and Facilitates Their Correction
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Use of potassium concentrations as a quality-of-service metric for phlebotomists detects systematic preanalytical biases and facilitates their correction.
The detection and monitoring of preanalytical bias in the clinical laboratory can be challenging, as bias can be introduced at any point from specimen collection to sample processing, and those biases stemming from sample collection or handling before delivery to the laboratory can be difficult to measure and eliminate. In particular, variations in potassium concentrations due to preanalytical ...
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