title: Suitability of a transport box for blood sample shipment over a long period.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Safety transport boxes are increasingly used to ship laboratory specimens but there is little information on their capacity to maintain suitable transportation temperatures.
  
  
  METHODS
  Inner temperature was assessed using a commercially available transport box during an 8-h transportation period in the heat.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Temperature stability was unsatisfactory during approximately 64% of the transportation time (i.e., from 125 to 450 min).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Transport boxes might be unsuitable for shipping specimens over long periods.
authors.affiliation: UO Diagnostica Ematochimica, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy. ulippi@tin.it
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lippi
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lima-Oliveira
authors.forename: Sandro Coutino
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Nazer
authors.forename: Maria Luiza Lopes
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Moreira
authors.forename: Rodrigo Fagner Macedo
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.forename: Gian Luca
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Salvagno
authors.forename: Martina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Montagnana
authors.forename: Marileia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Scartezini
authors.forename: Geraldo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Picheth
authors.forename: Gian Cesare
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Guidi
mesh_terms: D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors; D014186:Transportation