Quality Indicators for Evaluating Errors in the Preanalytical Phase
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Innovative software for recording preanalytical errors in accord with the IFCC quality indicators.
The preanalytical phase, encompassing at large all those activities necessary to obtain a suitable biological specimen, is an essential part of the total testing process [1]. Several lines of evidence attest that uncertainties, poorly standardized and even misleading preanalytical procedures produce the vast majority of problems in diagnostic testing, wherein up to 60%–70% of laboratory errors ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Laboratory Physicians
سال: 2021
ISSN: 0974-2727,0974-7826
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1729473