Quality improvement to decrease specimen mislabeling in transfusion medicine.

Karen Quillen; Kate Murphy

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Quality improvement to decrease specimen mislabeling in transfusion medicine.

February 15, 2010

Quillen K, Murphy K. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2006;130(8):1196-1198.

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The authors collected data on specimen mislabeling and implemented an intervention to provide timely feedback to emergency department staff, after which major mislabeling decreased from 47% to 14%.

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