title: Life after phlebotomy deployment: reducing major patient and specimen identification errors.
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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory Services, Valley Hospital, USA.
authors.forename: Lawrence J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Bologna
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mutter
mesh_terms: D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009515:New Jersey / Q000453:epidemiology; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D018962:Phlebotomy / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D012308:Risk Management; D017749:Total Quality Management