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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.

The investigators describe a system for classifying errors in clinical laboratories.
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