More than 30,000 specimen bottles come from gastroenterology and colorectal surgery each year at Mayo Clinic, and sometimes, they get mislabeled. "Most labeling errors have been due to either the ...
Up to 70 percent of errors associated with lab results happen way before the tests are even analyzed, according to a report from ECRI Institute’s Patient Safety Organization. Getting a delayed ...
* Context. - The labeling of paraffin blocks and microscopic glass slides in the practice of surgical pathology varies from institution to institution and introduces ...
ROCHESTER, Minn., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists at the Mayo Clinic say they are using radio frequency identification, a technology known as RFID, to reduce lab specimen labeling errors. The RFID ...
Blood samples are accepted from 7 am Monday through 11 am Friday. For pediatric patients, draw requirements are as follows. They are the minimum sample volumes required. These are guidelines for ...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's most secure laboratories may have mislabeled, improperly stored and shipped samples of potentially infectious plague bacteria, which can cause several deadly forms of ...
In a molecular diagnostic laboratory, having a system for tracking specimens, or assays, is integral to workflow efficiency and accuracy. Although streamlining this process often proves to be ...