Systematic assessment of culture review as a tool to assess errors in the clinical microbiology laboratory.
Goodyear N, Ulness BK, Prentice JL, et al. Systematic assessment of culture review as a tool to assess errors in the clinical microbiology laboratory. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2008;132(11):1792-5. doi:10.1043/1543-2165-132.11.1792.
This study discovered that errors from positive culture reports most commonly involved susceptibility information and reporting. The authors suggest that careful review of such reports could prevent clinical laboratory errors.