DOI: 10.1055/s-00000077

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Issue 06 · Volume 38 · September 2012 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-23718 Quality in Hemostasis and Thrombosis, Part I Guest Editors, Emmanuel J. Favaloro, Ph.D., M.A.I.M.S., F.F.Sc. (RCPA), Mario Plebani, M.D., and Giuseppe Lippi, M.D.

Preface

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Favaloro, Emmanuel J.; Plebani, Mario; Lippi, Giuseppe: Quality in Hemostasis and Thrombosis—Part I

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Plebani, Mario; Favaloro, Emmanuel J.; Lippi, Giuseppe: Patient Safety and Quality in Laboratory and Hemostasis Testing: A Renewed Loop?
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Olson, John D.; Harrison, Chantal R.: Event Management: The Heart of the Quality Program
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Lippi, Giuseppe; Salvagno, Gian Luca; Montagnana, Martina; Lima-Oliveira, Gabriel; Guidi, Gian Cesare; Favaloro, Emmanuel J.: Quality Standards for Sample Collection in Coagulation Testing
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Adcock Funk, Dorothy M.; Lippi, Giuseppe; Favaloro, Emmanuel J.: Quality Standards for Sample Processing, Transportation, and Storage in Hemostasis Testing
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Tripodi, Armando: Problems and Solutions for Testing Hemostasis Assays while Patients Are on Anticoagulants
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Cuker, Adam: Unfractionated Heparin for the Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism: Best Practices and Areas of Uncertainty
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Cooper, Peter C.; Goodeve, Anne C.; Beauchamp, Nicholas J.: Quality in Molecular Biology Testing for Inherited Thrombophilia Disorders
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Dardikh, Myriam; Meijer, Piet; van der Meer, Felix; Favaloro, Emmanuel J.; Verbruggen, Bert: Acquired Functional Coagulation Inhibitors: Review on Epidemiology, Results of a Wet-Workshop on Laboratory Detection, and Implications for Quality of Inhibitor Diagnosis
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Hayward, Catherine P.M.; Moffat, Karen A.; Plumhoff, Elizabeth; Timleck, Marnie; Hoffman, Suzanne; Spitzer, Ernie; Van Cott, Elizabeth M.; Meijer, Piet: External Quality Assessment of Platelet Disorder Investigations: Results of International Surveys on Diagnostic Tests for Dense Granule Deficiency and Platelet Aggregometry Interpretation
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Bonar, Roslyn A.; Favaloro, Emmanuel J.; Marsden, Katherine: External Quality Assurance for Heparin Monitoring