Hospitals move to cut dangerous lab errors.

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Hospitals move to cut dangerous lab errors.

June 28, 2006

Landro L.

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This article reports on a laboratory mix-up resulting in misdiagnosis and unneeded surgery and discusses the problem of laboratory errors.

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