Closing the brain-to-brain loop in laboratory testing

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1131-1133

  Plebani, Mario ^a   Lippi, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

brain to brain loop; clinical risk management; extra analytical indicators; patient safety; quality specifications; total error

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79960254195     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.617     Document Type: Review

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