Diagnostic Errors and Laboratory Medicine – Causes, Strategies and Research Methodologies
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 17625
Special Issue Editor
Interests: quality indicators; risk management; laboratory medicine; pre-analytical error; patient safety; utilization management; critical differences
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Laboratory tests play crucial roles in clinical diagnostic procedures and treatment decision making. Errors occurring during laboratory testing may have adverse consequences for patients, including time loss, increased costs, delays in care, and pain and suffering. The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight the wide-ranging research about the causes, status, strategies, and management of laboratory errors throughout the total laboratory testing process from the manufacturing phase to the post-analytical phase. This will play a vital role in gathering information and improving the landscape for laboratory errors, emphasizing the need for a patient-centered approach to laboratory errors.
Dr. Sollip Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- quality
- quality indicator
- quality control
- quality improvement
- patient safety
- laboratory medicine
- diagnostic errors
- brain-to-brain loop
- laboratory-associated errors
- extra analytical
- pre-analytical
- analytical
- post-analytical
- quality indicator
- error detection
- error reporting
- error prevention
- risk management
- statistical approach
- systematical approach
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