Informatics aids to reduce failure rates in notification of abnormal outpatient test results

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 1815-

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Plebani, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 70350501870     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.367     Document Type: Letter

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