Patient misidentification in laboratory medicine A qualitative analysis of 227 root cause analysis reports in the veterans health administration

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 244-255

  Dunn, Edward J ^a   Moga, Paul J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DATA MINING; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL ERROR; UNITED STATES;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DATA MINING; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 76449100520     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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