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The prevalence of hemolysis – a survey using hemolysis index

  • Dan Liu , Yan-xin Li and Yi Huang EMAIL logo

Corresponding author: Yi Huang, MD, PhD, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, No. 32, West Section 2, 1st Ring Road, Chengdu, 610072, P.R. China, Phone: +86 028 8739 4642, Cell: +86 136 6613 2966
aDan Liu and Yan-xin Li contributed equally to this work.
  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: Supported by the Doctoral Fund of Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital to Yi Huang (Grant No. 30305030563).

  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.

  6. Conflict of interest statement: All the authors declared that they have no conflict of interest.

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Received: 2016-8-7
Accepted: 2016-8-17
Published Online: 2016-9-26
Published in Print: 2017-3-1

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