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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.

The researchers assessed specimen labeling errors before and after implementation of three patient safety projects and found that the initiatives reduced labeling errors.
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