Laboratory networking and sample quality: A still relevant issue for patient safety

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1703-1705

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Simundic, Ana Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Errors; Patient safety; Preanalytical variability; Quality; Sample transportation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84867781007     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2012-0245     Document Type: Editorial

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