Laboratory Medicine
"A System to Monitor a Portion of the Total Testing Process in Medical Clinics and Laboratories: Feasibility of a Split-Specimen Design."
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 10th, 1998
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, "Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of using a prototype split-specimen design to assess integrity of a portion of the total testing process in medical clinics and laboratories. Setting: Two or three tubes of venous blood were collected from 177 patients for analysis of one of three analytes (serum potassium, serum total cholesterol, and whole-blood hemoglobin). Patients were seen at one of the nine clinics participating in this study. In all cases, one tube of blood from each patient was sent to a commercial referral laboratory,...
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