Critical laboratory value notification: a failure mode effects and criticality analysis.

Sunita Saxena; Raymond Kempf; Susan Wilcox; Ira A. Shulman; Louise Wong; Glenn Cunningham; Elaine Vega; Stephanie Hall

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Critical laboratory value notification: a failure mode effects and criticality analysis.

January 31, 2006

Saxena S, Kempf R, Wilcox S, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2005;31(9):495-506.

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The authors applied failure mode effects and criticality analysis to improve laboratory value notification processes with non-emergent areas of care in a teaching hospital.

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