Systematic assessment of culture review as a tool to assess errors in the clinical microbiology laboratory.

Nancy Goodyear; Bruce K. Ulness; Jennifer L. Prentice; Brad T. Cookson; Ajit P. Limaye

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Systematic assessment of culture review as a tool to assess errors in the clinical microbiology laboratory.

December 3, 2008

Goodyear N, Ulness BK, Prentice JL, et al. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2008;132(11):1792-5.

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This study discovered that errors from positive culture reports most commonly involved susceptibility information and reporting. The authors suggest that careful review of such reports could prevent clinical laboratory errors.

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