Handling of hemolyzed serum samples in clinical chemistry laboratories: the Nordic hemolysis project

What is it about?

Hemolysis of blood samples is a pre-analytical challenge that often leads to sample rejection in medical laboratories. We show that even if many common clinical chemistry analytes were similarly affected by hemolysis, there is large variation between the laboratories on how they report test results from hemolyzed samples, also when they use the same type of instrument.

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