Patient safety in the clinical laboratory: a longitudinal analysis of specimen identification errors.
Wagar EA, Tamashiro L, Yasin B, et al. Patient safety in the clinical laboratory: a longitudinal analysis of specimen identification errors. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2006;130(11):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.