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References

References for "The Path to Error Reduction"


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1. Ehrmeyer SS, Laessig RH.1.  Clin Chem Lab Med. 2007;45(6):766-73.  Point-of-care testing, medical error, and patient safety: a 2007 assessment.

2. Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS, eds. Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine. To Err is Human:  Building a Safer Health system. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2000.

3.  J Pediatr. 2008 Feb;152(2):219-24. Computer-assisted bar-coding system significantly reduces clinical laboratory specimen identification errors in a pediatric oncology hospital. Hayden RT, Patterson DJ, Jay DW,  et al.

4. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2006 Nov;130(11):1662-8. Patient safety in the clinical laboratory: a longitudinal analysis of specimen identification errors. Wagar EA, Tamashiro L, Yasin B, et al.

5. Data presented at a QC Workshop, Madison, WS.  December 2007.  See also Westgard, J.  and P. Barry, Laboratory Medicine, 20: 241 - 247, 1990.

6.The Interlaboratory Program,  a distance learning course sponsored by the U. N. Dakota, Spring, 2007.

7.  Clin Lab Med. 2004 Dec;24(4):965-78. Detecting and preventing the occurrence of errors in the practices of laboratory medicine and anatomic pathology: 15 years' experience with the College of American Pathologists' Q-PROBES and Q-TRACKS programs. Novis DA.