The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report (1999) stated that the prevalence of medical errors is
high in today's health care system. Some specialties in health care are more risky than …

We summarize information on quality indicators related to laboratory testing from published
literature and Internet sources to assess current gaps with respect to stages of the laboratory …

Purpose To develop a guideline to improve the accuracy of human epidermal growth factor
receptor 2 (HER2) testing in invasive breast cancer and its utility as a predictive marker …

Context.—Patient safety is influenced by the frequency and seriousness of errors that occur
in the health care system. Error rates in laboratory practices are collected routinely for a …

Context.—Blood culture contamination extends hospital stays and increases the cost of care.
Objectives.—To measure blood culture contamination rates in a large number of institutions …

Many diagnostic errors are associated with laboratory testing, and many of these are
preventable. However, a reduction in testing-related diagnostic errors (TDE) is hindered by …

Laboratory testing is an integral part of the decision-making process, and results of
laboratory testing often strongly influence medical diagnoses and therapies. There is a long …

Background: Quality management systems should cover all the steps involved in the overall
testing and non-testing processes. Aim: To identify quality indicators for extra-analytical …

Background and Objectives Collection of a blood sample from the correct patient is the first
step in the process of safe transfusion. The aim of this international collaborative study was …

BACKGROUND: Red blood cell (RBC) product wastage in hospitals is reported to range
from 0.1% to 6.7%. Wastage at our institution averaged 4.4% of 63,000 issued RBC …