Wristband errors in small hospitals: A College of American Pathologists' Q-Probes study of quality issues in patient identification

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 203-209

  Dale, Jane C ^a   Renner, Stephen W ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ERROR; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT INFORMATION; WRIST;

EID: 0031050654     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/labmed/28.3.203     Document Type: Article

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