It is the responsibility of health organizations to guarantee a high level of healthcare by using adequate methodologies and instruments, creating secure conditions for treatment, and preventing adverse events due to human or system errors...
Keywords: blood gas, clinical risk management, patient safety, point-of-care testing
06/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterReducing medical errors has become an international concern. Population-based studies from a number of nations around the world have consistently demonstrated unacceptably high rates of medical injury and preventable deaths...
Keywords: adverse event reporting, Clinical Governance, clinical risk management, Continuous Quality Improvement, error prevention, healthcare system, patient safety
06/2006 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter