The importance of incident reporting in laboratory diagnostics

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 811-814

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a,c   Plebani, Mario ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Laboratory Errors and Patient Safety   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Errors; Event reporting; Incident reporting; Laboratory medicine; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENT REPORT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; MEDICAL ERROR; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 72749092669     PISSN: 00365513     EISSN: 15027686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365510903307962     Document Type: Letter

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