Appropriate labelling of blood collection tubes: A step ahead towards patient's safety

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1921-1923

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Sonntag, Oswald ^b   Plebani, Mario ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b RAD Data Communications GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD COLLECTION TUBE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; EDITORIAL; ERROR; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DEVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOLOGY; RISK; TUBE;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICE;

EID: 84856521708     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.736     Document Type: Editorial

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