Internal quality control is an integral process of laboratory testing. A clinical laboratory's coagulation quality control (QC) program is a critical component of its quality assessment program. The ...

Coagulation testing methodologies are often challenging for new users to understand. Terminology may be confusing and the methodologies are sensitive to many variables. Consideration of biological, ...

Background: Unfractionated heparin (UFH) has been used clinically for 5 decades. Despite being a cornerstone of anticoagulation, UFH is limited by its unpredictable pharmacokinetic profile, which ...

(HealthDay News) — Most routine coagulation tests can be reliably evaluated after storage at room temperature for up to 8 hours after blood collection, according to a study published in the ...

Biological variation represents the natural fluctuations in laboratory test results that occur both within an individual over time and among different individuals. In the context of coagulation ...