Aug 29, 2011 | Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory Pathology
Findings may lead clinical pathology laboratories to update phlebotomy guidelines What is the proper quantity of blood to draw from a patient for medical laboratory testing purposes? That question has been debated regularly for decades by pathologists and clinical laboratory scientists. Now a recent study shows a connection between blood draw practices and hospital-acquired anemia in patients with acute myocardial infarction. The findings of this study serve as evidence that the quantity of...
