Effectiveness of barcoding for reducing patient specimen and laboratory testing identification errors: A Laboratory Medicine Best Practices systematic review and meta-analysis

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 13-14, 2012, Pages 988-998

  Snyder, Susan R ^a   Favoretto, Alessandra M ^a   Derzon, James H ^a   Christenson, Robert H ^c   Kahn, Stephen E ^h   Shaw, Colleen S ^b   Baetz, Rich Ann ^a   Mass, Diana ^d   Fantz, Corinne R ^e   Raab, Stephen S ^f   Tanasijevic, Milenko J ^g   Liebow, Edward B ^a  

^a BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d Associated Laboratory Consultants   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Barcoding; Comparative effectiveness research; Healthcare quality improvement; Laboratory medicine; Laboratory testing errors; Patient identification systems; Patient safety; Patient specimen identification; Specimen labeling errors

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CODING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL PRACTICE; META ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866038340     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: 18732933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2012.06.019     Document Type: Review

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