Abstract:Accurate and reliable medical laboratory test results are essential for correct patient diagnosis and management. This is however influenced by many preanalytical, analytical, and post-analytical factors. A general problem faced by most clinical laboratories is the inability to timely process all blood samples received due to overwhelming workload, reagents stock-outs, and equipment breakdown, necessitating storage which predisposes analytes to deterioration. To ensure accurate results from stored samples, the… Show more
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