نتایج جستجو برای: blood specimen collection

تعداد نتایج: 908708  

Journal: :Forensic science international 2005
Dennis J Crouch

The potential to use oral fluid as a drug-testing specimen has been the subject of considerable scientific interest. The ease with which specimens can be collected and the potential for oral fluid (OF) drug concentrations to reflect blood-drug concentrations make it a potentially valuable specimen in clinical as well as forensic settings. However, the possible effects of the OF collection proce...

2016
Adedoyin Awofisayo-Okuyelu Neville Q Verlander Corinne Amar Richard Elson Kathie Grant John Harris

BACKGROUND Listeriosis is an opportunistic bacterial infection caused by Listeria monocytogenes and predominantly affects people who are immunocompromised. Due to its severity and the population at risk, prompt clinical diagnosis and treatment of listeriosis is essential. A major step to making a clinical diagnosis is the collection of the appropriate specimen(s) for testing. This study explore...

Journal: :Journal of clinical microbiology 2008
Stefan Riedel Paul Bourbeau Brandi Swartz Steven Brecher Karen C Carroll Paul D Stamper W Michael Dunne Timothy McCardle Nathan Walk Kristin Fiebelkorn David Sewell Sandra S Richter Susan Beekmann Gary V Doern

Bloodstream infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Physician orders for blood cultures often specify that blood specimens be collected at or around the time of a temperature elevation, presumably as a means of enhancing the likelihood of detecting significant bacteremia. In a multicenter study, which utilized retrospective patient chart reviews as a means of collecting da...

2001
Haiying Grunenwald

Dried blood spots collected on Specimen Collection Cards, commonly called “Guthrie cards” (Figure 1), have been used widely as valuable resources for genetic studies, such as, determination of hereditary diseases like phenylketonuria and congenital hypothyroidism. The ease of storage and transportation of these cards with blood spots also lends them to a variety of large field studies, especial...

2015
Dragana Milutinović Ilija Andrijević Milijana Ličina Ljiljana Andrijević

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to assess confidence level of healthcare professionals in venipuncture and their knowledge on the possible causes of in vitro hemolysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS A sample of 94 healthcare professionals (nurses and laboratory technicians) participated in this survey study. A four-section questionnaire was used as a research instrument comprising general information f...

2001
Robert M. Parr N. E. Luepke G. V. Iyengar Rolf Zeisler J. Versieck Alan J. Blotcky Hans J. Oser

Articles Specs Note From the Edito Foreword Representative Sampling of Human Tissue Technical Considerations for Sampling and Sample Preparation of Biomedical Samples for Trace Element Analysis Environmental Specimen Banking The Selection, Collection, Transport, and Sorage of Biomedical Samples Presampling Factors The Sampling and Analysis of Human Livers The Collection and Preparation of Human...

Journal: :Gaceta sanitaria 2011
Gemma Castaño-Vinyals Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen Víctor Moreno Estela Carrasco Elisabet Guinó Manolis Kogevinas Cristina M Villanueva

OBJECTIVES Low participation rates in the selection of population controls are an increasing concern for the validity of case-control studies worldwide. METHODS We conducted a pilot study to assess two approaches to recruiting population controls in a study of colorectal cancer, including a face-to-face interview and blood sample collection. In the first approach, persons identified through a...

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