For many years, the clinical laboratory's focus on analytical quality has resulted in an error
rate of 4-5 sigma, which surpasses most other areas in healthcare. However, greater …

Sažetak Laboratory analyses are crucial for diagnosis, follow-up and treatment decisions.
Since mistakes in every step of the total testing process may potentially affect patient safety …

The clinical laboratory is no longer its own limited ecosystem, as it is increasingly integrated
with patient care, assisting diagnosis, monitoring therapies and predicting clinical outcomes …

O uso dos indicadores da qualidade vem sendo valorizado na gestão dos laboratórios
clínicos para otimizar a qualificação e a quantificação das falhas nos diferentes processos …

A large body of evidence attests that quality programs developed around the analytical
phase of the total testing process would only produce limited improvements, since the large …

Sažetak Introduction: This study describes quality indicators for the pre-analytical process,
grou** errors according to patient risk as critical or major, and assesses their evaluation …

Sažetak Assay interferences have long been underestimated and unfortunately too often
undetected in the daily clinical laboratory practice. The extra-analytical phase of the …

Objective To evaluate the major causes of preanalytical errors in medical laboratory of a
tertiary care hospital. Methods It was a retrospective study in which we analyzed the sample …

Objective To quantify performance in the preanalytical phase in a stat laboratory using
quality indicators, and compare our results with those in the literature to improve laboratory …

BACKGROUND: Most errors in laboratory medicine are preanalytical in nature. In the
present study, we aimed to survey preanalytical steps in venous blood sampling, prior to …