Assessment of latent factors contributing to error: addressing surgical pathology error wisely.

Maxwell L. Smith; Stephen S. Raab

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Assessment of latent factors contributing to error: addressing surgical pathology error wisely.

December 21, 2014

Smith ML, Raab SS. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2011;135(11).

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This study used root cause analysis to identify latent factors that contributed to near misses in processing surgical pathology specimens.

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