Assessment of latent factors contributing to error: addressing surgical pathology error wisely.
Smith ML, Raab SS. Assessment of Latent Factors Contributing to Error: Addressing Surgical Pathology Error Wisely. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2011;135(11). doi:10.5858/arpa.2011-0334-oa.
This study used root cause analysis to identify latent factors that contributed to near misses in processing surgical pathology specimens.