Errors in medicine and errors in laboratory medicine: What is the difference?

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 79-81

  Ottomano, Cosimo ^a  

^a OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIET RESTRICTION; EDITORIAL; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; LABORATORY ERROR; LABORATORY TEST; LIPID ANALYSIS; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICINE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHLEBOTOMIST; PREVALENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOLOGIST; STANDARDIZATION;

ARTIFACTS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FASTING; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENTS' ROOMS; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953513159     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2010.0159-09     Document Type: Editorial

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