Quality improvement to decrease specimen mislabeling in transfusion medicine

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1196-1198

  Quillen, Karen ^a   Murphy, Kate ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL ERROR; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PHLEBOTOMY; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 33746749999     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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