Is this the Extinction of ESR, the Dinosaur Laboratory test?

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Is this the Extinction of ESR, the Dinosaur Laboratory test?

18 Jan, 2012

Published over 14 years ago. See the latest and most current information on Laboratory products.

Sabrina Chetcuti, Marketing Manager, Benson Viscometers Ltd
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Many laboratories have historically clung onto the ESR (Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate) as a test that can confirm that patients are unwell.

Even though the science behind ESR is seen as dubious by laboratory scientists and many clinicians including Consultant Haematologists, the question that remains unanswered is why we are still requesting it?

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