Errors in Laboratory Medicine and Patient Safety.

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Errors in Laboratory Medicine and Patient Safety.

June 3, 2009

Plebani M, ed. Clinica Chimica Acta. 2009;404(1):1-86.

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This collection of papers presented at an international conference on laboratory medicine focuses on efforts to reduce medical errors in laboratory practice, especially those concerning diagnostic mistakes.

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