Quality Indicators in Laboratory Medicine: From theory to practice: Preliminary data from the IFCC Working Group Project "laboratory Errors and Patient Safety"

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 835-844

  Sciacovelli, Laura ^a   O'Kane, Maurice ^b   Skaik, Younis Abdelwahab ^c   Caciagli, Patrizio ^d   Pellegrini, Cristina ^d   Rin, Giorgio Da ^e   Ivanov, Agnes ^f   Ghys, Timothy ^g   Plebani, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b ALTNAGELVIN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^d APSS   (Italy)

^e S Bassiano Hospital   (Italy)

^f TARTU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Estonia)

^g AZ Sint Lucas   (Belgium)

Author keywords

errors reporting system; laboratory errors; patient safety; quality assurance; quality indicators

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL ERROR; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH REPORT; SAFETY;

EID: 79954567311     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.128     Document Type: Article

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