caa a22 4500 378897837 CHVBK 20180305123510.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040216xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/CCLM.2004.013 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/CCLM.2004.013 Evaluation of a new generation of plastic evacuated blood-collection tubes in clinical chemistry, therapeutic drug monitoring, hormone and trace metal analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Jean-Marie Boeynaems, Anne De Leener, Barbara Dessars, Hector Rodriguez Villa-Lobos, Jean-Claude Aubry, Frédéric Cotton, Philippe Thiry] Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) tubes have several advantages over glass tubes: they are unbreakable, lighter and more easily disposed of. Despite a steady increase in their use and an expansion of the range of available tubes, few studies validating their use have been published in the literature. This paper describes the various studies that have been performed to compare VENOJECT glass, VENOSAFE PET and VENOSAFE PET/heparin tubes for the assay of a panel of analytes in routine clinical chemistry, immunochemistry, hormone and tumor marker analysis and trace metal determination. These studies demonstrate that VENOSAFE PET tubes are a suitable alternative to glass tubes. Copyright © 2004 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG Medical equipment & techniques nationallicence Medical diagnosis nationallicence Diseases & disorders nationallicence Boeynaems Jean-Marie aut Leener Anne De aut Dessars Barbara aut Villa-Lobos Hector Rodriguez aut Aubry Jean-Claude aut Cotton Frédéric aut Thiry Philippe aut Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine Walter de Gruyter 42/1(2004-02-16), 67-71 1434-6621 42:1<67 2004 42 cclm https://doi.org/10.1515/CCLM.2004.013 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/CCLM.2004.013 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Boeynaems Jean-Marie aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Leener Anne De aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dessars Barbara aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Villa-Lobos Hector Rodriguez aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Aubry Jean-Claude aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cotton Frédéric aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Thiry Philippe aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine Walter de Gruyter 42/1(2004-02-16), 67-71 1434-6621 42:1<67 2004 42 cclm CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter