The accuracy of diagnostic results in clinical laboratory testing is paramount for informed
healthcare decisions and effective patient care. While the focus has traditionally been on the …

Preanalytical errors have previously been shown to contribute a significant proportion of
errors in laboratory processes and contribute to a number of patient safety risks …

The last few decades have seen a significant decrease in the rates of analytical errors in
clinical laboratories, and currently available evidence demonstrates that the pre-and post …

There is now consolidated evidence that the vast majority of laboratory errors occur in the
extra-analytical phases of the total testing process, and especially in the preanalytical …

Clinical laboratories play a vital role in patient care, but many diagnostic errors are
associated with laboratory testing. The past decades have seen sustained improvements in …

Laboratory data are used extensively in patient care; consequently, laboratory errors have a
tremendous impact on patient safety. Clinical laboratories were early leaders in efforts to …

Objectives The increase in the prevalence of medical errors represents a disturbing trend;
hospital-based errors are the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. For the …

Laboratory errors can occur in the preanalytical phase and include issues with sample
collection (hemolysis, incorrect tube type, or order of draw), interfering substances (lipemia …

Total quality in laboratory medicine should be defined as the guarantee that each activity
throughout the total testing process is correctly performed, providing valuable medical …

The identification of reliable quality indicators (QIs) is a crucial step in enabling users to
quantify the quality of laboratory services. The current lack of attention to extra-laboratory …