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Items for "laboratory errors"

How can we make laboratory testing safer?

Background: Diagnostic errors occur in laboratory medicine resulting from an error or delay in diagnosis, a failure to employ indicated tests, and the use of outmoded tests...

Keywords: improving laboratory services, Institute for Quality in Laboratory Medicine, laboratory errors, patient safety, Quality Institute

06/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
“Pre-pre” and “post-post” analytical error: high-incidence patient safety hazards involving the clinical laboratory

Data from recent studies suggest that the highest incidence of laboratory-related errors occurs in the pre-analytical phase of laboratory testing...

Keywords: diagnostic algorithms, laboratory errors, patient safety, post-analytical phase, pre-analytical phase, test interpretation, test selection

06/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Recommendations for detection and management of unsuitable samples in clinical laboratories

A large body of evidence attests that quality programs developed around the analytical phase of the total testing process would only produce limited improvements, since the large majority of errors encountered in clinical laboratories still prevails within extra-analytical areas of testing, especially in manually intensive preanalytical processes...

Keywords: audit, detection of unsuitable specimens, extra-analytical variability, guidelines and consensus recommendations, laboratory errors, specimen collection

06/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Risk management in laboratory medicine: quality assurance programs and professional competence

To guarantee excellent performance and service, the process of identifying and treating error risks must be integrated into the total testing process...

Keywords: External Quality Assessment, laboratory errors, laboratory performance, professional competence, quality indicators

06/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
The role of in vitro diagnostic companies in reducing laboratory error

Laboratory errors have a significant impact on patient safety. The manufacturers of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) products play an important role in the reduction of laboratory errors by ensuring the highest possible safety and efficacy of their products...

Keywords: design for Six Sigma, Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC), evacuated tubes, in vitro diagnostic (IVD) products, laboratory errors, New Product Development, patient safety, preanalytical variables, product development, Six Sigma

06/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Six Sigma and laboratory consultation

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Keywords: laboratory consultation, laboratory errors, Quality Control, Six Sigma

01/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter