Why are labs still running a test for inflammation with a 4-hour time limit?

Why are labs still running a test for inflammation with a 4-hour time limit?

Every blood sample begins degrading the moment it’s drawn, and most of what can go wrong with a laboratory result goes wrong before the specimen ever reaches an analyzer. This is the preanalytical phase — collection, handling, transport, storage — and it is estimated to account for the large majority of laboratory errors, far more than the analytical step that labs spend most of their energy perfecting. Hemolysis from a rough draw, a mislabeled …