Developing a Patient Safety Culture in the Clinical Laboratory
Michael Astion, MD, PhD

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This presentation gives an overview of patient safety issues related to
laboratory testing and addresses how any laboratory can perform quality
improvement projects to reduce patient harm related to errors in laboratory
testing. Special consideration is given to methods for obtaining patient
outcomes and methods for developing a culture of patient safety.

Developed in co-operation with AACC’s Patient Safety & Laboratory Error Task
Force. For more information on patient safety and best practices for the
clinical laboratory, point your Internet browser to
http://www.laboratoryerrors.org/.

http://www.aacc.org/access/safety/index.asp