PubMed · 11813527
Life after phlebotomy deployment: reducing major patient and specimen identification errors.
Abstract
In addition to establishing a non-punitive environment for reporting errors, and analyzing the root causes of errors, The Valley Hospital volunteered to be a beta test site for a barcode specimen management technology. As a result of implementing this positive patient and specimen identification system, the hospital has reduced its patient and specimen misidentification errors by 77 percent in the last year.
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Lawrence J Bologna, Michael Mutter. 2002. Life after phlebotomy deployment: reducing major patient and specimen identification errors.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11813527/
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