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Impact of under-filled blood collection tubes containing K2EDTA and K3EDTA as anticoagulants on automated complete blood count (CBC) testing

  • Vanja Radišić Biljak EMAIL logo , Sandra Božičević , Maja Krhač and Marijana Vučić Lovrenčić

Corresponding author: Vanja Radišić Biljak, Merkur University Hospital, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Zajčeva 19, Zagreb 10000, Croatia, Phone: +385 1 2334 110, Fax: +385 1 2334 110, E-mail:

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Employment or leadership: None declared.

  4. Honorarium: None declared.

  5. Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.

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Received: 2016-3-1
Accepted: 2016-3-2
Published Online: 2016-3-30
Published in Print: 2016-11-1

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