Preanalytical errors in hospitals : implications for quality improvement of blood sample collection
Background: Most errors in the venous blood testing process are preanalytical, i.e. they occur before the sample reaches the laboratory. Unlike the laboratory analysis, the preanalytical phase involves several error-prone manual tasks not easily avoided with technological solutions. Despite the impo...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Umeå universitet, Institutionen för medicinsk biovetenskap
2008
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1672 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7264-562-2 |