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  • Title: Life after phlebotomy deployment: reducing major patient and specimen identification errors.
    Author: Bologna LJ, Mutter M.
    Journal: J Healthc Inf Manag; 2002; 16(1):65-70. PubMed ID: 11813527.
    Abstract:
    In addition to establishing a non-punitive environment for reporting errors, and analyzing the root causes of errors, The Valley Hospital volunteered to be a beta test site for a barcode specimen management technology. As a result of implementing this positive patient and specimen identification system, the hospital has reduced its patient and specimen misidentification errors by 77 percent in the last year.
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