Blood bank safety practices: Mislabeled samples and wrong blood in tube - A Q-probes analysis of 122 clinical Laboratories

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1108-1115

  Grimm, Erin ^a   Friedberg, Richard C ^b   Wilkinson, David S ^c   AuBuchon, James P ^a,d   Souers, Rhona J ^e   Lehman, Christopher M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Baystate Health ^*  (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PUGET SOUND BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^e North Carolina   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD SAMPLING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; PHLEBOTOMY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MEDICAL ERRORS; PHLEBOTOMY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955368666     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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