title: [Risk management in laboratory medicine].
abstract: Risk management is essential for providing patients with safe medical services. In the United States, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) launched a 1.5-year national campaign to save 100,000 lives by improving the quality of medical care (100 K campaign) in 2004. They successfully prevented more than 100,000 deaths during this period. In Japan, the "National Joint Action of Risk Management" started as a 2 year program in May 2008. They listed 8 action goals for improving medical care. The Japanese Society of Laboratory Medicine is one of the organizations participating in this project. The purpose of this symposium is to promote and encourage investigations of incidents in clinical laboratories, collect data on this issue, and recommend effective procedures for improving patient safety.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan. tmiida@juntendo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miida
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012308:Risk Management; D014481:United States