Abstract

“A laboratory test is no better than the specimen, and the specimen no better than the manner in which it was collected.” So stated the advertising language of BD (Becton Dickinson and Company) to promote the first evacuated blood collection tubes, back in the late 1940s and early 1950s.1 This technology for blood collection, patented in 1949, is substantially similar to the technology pervasive in clinical practice today.

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