Retrospective analysis of intra-patient laboratory variation demonstrates that the BD Vacutainer® Barricor™ blood collection tube reduces troponin variation

Preanalytical challenges – time for solutions

(2019) Giuseppe Lippi et al.   CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE

Barricor blood collection tubes are equivalent to PST for a variety of chemistry and immunoassay analytes except for lactate dehydrogenase

(2019) Joshua E. Raizman et al.   CLINICA CHIMICA ACTA

Multi-platform analytical evaluation of the Beckman Coulter Access high-sensitivity troponin I assay across different laboratory sites using Barricor plasma

(2019) Joshua E. Raizman et al.   CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Quality of plasma samples and BD Vacutainer Barricor tubes: Effects of centrifugation

(2018) Andrea Padoan et al.   CLINICA CHIMICA ACTA

Evaluation of BD Vacutainer® Barricor™ blood collection tubes for routine chemistry testing on a Roche Cobas® 8000 Platform

(2018) Jeffrey E. Fournier et al.   CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

The use of serial outpatient complete blood count (CBC) results to derive biologic variation: a new tool to gauge the acceptability of hematology testing

(2015) G. Cembrowski et al.   International Journal of Laboratory Hematology

BD rapid serum tubes reduce false positive plasma troponin T results on the Roche Cobas e411 analyzer

(2012) Christopher D. Koch et al.   CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Outliers as a Cause of False Cardiac Troponin Results: Investigating the Robustness of 4 Contemporary Assays

(2011) C. J. Pretorius et al.   CLINICAL CHEMISTRY

Preanalytical quality improvement: from dream to reality

(2011) Giuseppe Lippi et al.   CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE

The use of serial patient blood gas, electrolyte and glucose results to derive biologic variation: a new tool to assess the acceptability of intensive care unit testing

(2010) George S. Cembrowski et al.   CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE

Falsely elevated troponin I results due to outliers indicate a lack of analytical robustness

(2010) J. P. J. Ungerer et al.   ANNALS OF CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Three years of preanalytical errors: Quality specifications and improvement through implementation of statistical process control

(2009) Maria Salinas et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL & LABORATORY INVESTIGATION