Efficacy of an incident-reporting system in cellular pathology: a practical experience.

Emad A. Rakha; David Clark; Brinder Singh Chohan; Maysa El-Sayed; Soumadri Sen; Liz Bakowski; Simon O'Connor

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Efficacy of an incident-reporting system in cellular pathology: a practical experience.

July 6, 2012

Rakha EA, Clark D, Chohan BS, et al. J Clin Pathol. 2012;65(7):643-8.

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Analysis of 2 years of voluntary error reports in a cellular pathology laboratory revealed a low incidence of safety problems resulting in patient harm.

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