Classifying laboratory incident reports to identify problems that jeopardize patient safety.

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Classifying laboratory incident reports to identify problems that jeopardize patient safety.

September 7, 2005

Astion ML; Shojania KG; Hamill TR; Kim S; Ng VL.

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The investigators describe a system for classifying errors in clinical laboratories.

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