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COMMENTARY

Putting power into patient safety: interventions.

Astion M. Laboratory Errors & Patient Safety. May-June 2005;1:5-8.

STUDY

Patient safety in the clinical laboratory: a longitudinal analysis of specimen identification errors.

Wagar EA, Tamashiro L, Yasin B, Hilborne L, Bruckner DA. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2006;130:1662-1668.

COMMENTARY

Putting power into patient safety interventions. Part two: 99% is not good enough.

Astion M. Laboratory Errors & Patient Safety. July-August 2005;2:1-4.

STUDY

Medical errors arising from outsourcing laboratory and radiology services.

Chasin BS, Elliott SP, Klotz SA. Am J Med. 2007;120:819.e9-11.

STUDY

Computer-assisted bar-coding system significantly reduces clinical laboratory specimen identification errors in a pediatric oncology hospital.

Hayden RT, Patterson DJ, Jay DW, et al. J Pediatr. 2008;152:219-224.

REVIEW

Identifying cross contaminants and specimen mix-ups in surgical pathology.

Hunt JL. Adv Anat Pathol. 2008;15:211-217.

STUDY

Patient safety concerns arising from test results that return after hospital discharge.

Roy CL, Poon EG, Karson AS, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2005;143:121-128.

REVIEW

Patient safety and error reduction in surgical pathology.

Nakhleh RE. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2008;132:181-185.

REVIEW

Point-of-care testing, medical error, and patient safety: a 2007 assessment.

Ehrmeyer SS, Laessig RH. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2007;45:766-773.

STUDY

Finding blunders in thyroid testing: experience in newborns.

Zilka LJ, Lott JA, Baker LC, Linard SM. J Clin Lab Anal. 2008;22:254-256.

STUDY

Correlation of workload with disagreement and amendment rates in surgical pathology and nongynecologic cytology.

Renshaw AA, Gould EW. Am J Clin Pathol. 2006;125:820-822.

COMMENTARY

Right Patient, Wrong Sample

Astion M. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. December 2006.

STUDY

CT for suspected appendicitis in children: an analysis of diagnostic errors.

Taylor GA, Callahan MJ, Rodriguez D, Smink DS. Pediatr Radiol. 2006;36:331-337.

STUDY

Classifying laboratory incident reports to identify problems that jeopardize patient safety.

Astion ML, Shojania KG, Hamill TR, Kim S, Ng VL. Am J Clin Pathol. 2003;120:18-26.

STUDY

Frequent diagnostic errors in cardiac PET/CT due to misregistration of CT attenuation and emission PET images: a definitive analysis of causes, consequences, and corrections.

Gould KL, Pan T, Loghin C, Johnson NP, Guha A, Sdringola S. J Nucl Med. 2007;48:1112-1121.

STUDY

Medical emergency team calls in the radiology department: patient characteristics and outcomes.

Ott LK, Pinsky MR, Hoffman LA, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012 Mar 2; [Epup ahead of print].

STUDY

Studying critical values: adverse event identification following a critical laboratory values study at the Ohio State University Medical Center.

Jenkins JJ, Mac Crawford J, Bissell MG. Am J Clin Pathol. 2007;128:604-609.

REVIEW

Radiologic errors and malpractice: a blurry distinction.

Berlin L. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2007;189:517-522.

STUDY

Medical error identification, disclosure, and reporting: do emergency medicine provider groups differ?

Hobgood C, Weiner B, Tamayo-Sarver JH. Acad Emerg Med. 2006;13:443-451.

STUDY

Comparison and interpretation of urinalysis performed by a nephrologist versus a hospital-based clinical laboratory.

Tsai JJ, Yeun JY, Kumar VA, Don BR. Am J Kidney Dis. 2005;46:820-829.

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