One hundred years of laboratory testing and patient safety

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 797-798

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Guidi, Gian Cesare ^a   Plebani, Mario ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

HUMANS; LABORATORIES; PATIENTS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34250779436     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2007.176     Document Type: Short Survey

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