Building a bridge to safe diagnosis in health care. the role of the clinical laboratory

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-3

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Plebani, Mario ^b   Graber, Mark L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE; PATIENT SAFETY;

EID: 84954320588     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2015-1135     Document Type: Editorial

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