Blood gas and patient safety: Considerations based on experience developed in accordance with the Risk Management perspective

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 774-780

  Rambaldi, Marco ^a,e   Baranzoni, Mariateresa ^a   Coppolecchia, Pasquale ^b   Moschello, Jennifer N ^c   Novaco, Francesca ^d  

^a UO Anestesia e Rianimazione   (Italy)

^b Laboratorio Analisi   (Italy)

^c Servizio Ingegneria Clinica   (Italy)

^d Azienda Sanitaria di Modena   (Italy)

^e Nuovo Ospedale S Agostino   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood gas; Clinical risk management; Patient safety; Point of care testing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYZER; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ERROR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDICATION ERROR; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SAFETY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT;

BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34250748532     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2007.163     Document Type: Review

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