The research "The transition from gel separatory serum tubes to lithium heparin gel tubes in the clinical laboratory" is a study that aims to assess the viability of replacing serum samples with plasma samples in various clinical chemistry and immunoassay tests and to examine the implications of turnaround time (TAT) and sample quality during the transition process and a result of the study shows that there is a decreased TAT.
There are previous studies that show the same result to the TAT. Some studies such as the study of Hetu et al. and Ramakers et al. For Hetu et al.it studied Potassium test and concluded a significant decrease in the average time in terms of sample reception and result confirmation. This is similar to Ramakers et al. wherein there is a decreased median TAT with the use of Barricor tubes. Another study is from Badiou et al. that reported the same result using Barricor tubes instead of gel LIH tubes. In this study, the TAT was reduced due to the use of plasma instead of serum that needs to be clotted which is the factor that increases the TAT.
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