The quality and scope of information provided by medical laboratories to patients before laboratory testing: Survey of the Working Group for Patient Preparation of the Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 450, Issue , 2015, Pages 104-109

  Nikolac, Nora ^a   Simundic, Ana Maria ^a   Kackov, Sanja ^b   Serdar, Tihana ^c   Dorotic, Adrijana ^d   Fumic, Ksenija ^e   Gudasic Vrdoljak, Jelena ^f   Klenkar, Kornelija ^g   Sambunjak, Jadranka ^h   Vidranski, Valentina ^a  

^a SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c University of Zagreb   (Croatia)

^d Croatia   (Croatia)

^e KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^f KARLOVAC GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^g Zabok General Hospital   (Croatia)

^h GENERAL HOSPITAL ZADAR   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Laboratory error; Laboratory testing; Patient preparation; Preanalytical phase; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; SEX HORMONE;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CROATIA; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG MONITORING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT HARM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; STANDARDIZATION; URINE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; FEMALE; LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; URINALYSIS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CROATIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SAFETY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; URINE SPECIMEN COLLECTION;

EID: 84939537412     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2015.08.001     Document Type: Article

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