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Conveying the importance of the preanalytical phase
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283, USA. donaldyo@mail.med.upenn.edu
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
|August 28, 2003
Abstract:
Preanalytical issues do not readily lend themselves to systematic teaching and the approach to teaching must be modified for each of the populations who require such education. The populations to be educated include patients, nurses, medical students and physicians. The different approaches that we have tried, and continue to use are described.