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Patient misidentification in laboratory medicine: a qualitative analysis of 227 root cause analysis reports in the Veterans Health Administration.
Dunn EJ, Moga PJ. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2010;134:244-255.

Data from root cause analyses were used to identify causal factors for patient misidentification errors in clinical laboratories, pathology, and the blood bank.
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