Call for Enrolling More Professionals in the IFCC Project on Laboratory Errors and Patient Safety.
Patient safety is the foundation of good care. In the last decades, a body of evidence has been accumulated to demonstrate that pre- and post-analytical phase are more vulnerable to errors in laboratory medicine than the analytical phase. Aims of the project of the IFCC Working Group on "Laboratory Errors and Patient Safety" (WG-LEPS) are: a) to develop a series of Quality Indicators (QIs), specifically designed for clinical laboratories, b) to create a common reporting system for clinical laboratories based on standardized data collection, and c) to define state-of the-art and Quality Specifications (QSs) for each QI Preliminary results demonstrate that a Model of Quality Indicators can serve as a tool to monitor and control the pre-, intra- and post-analytical activities. However, only after enrolling a more consistent number of clinical laboratories, it should be possible to assure consistency to the data collected and reliability to the QIs identified and to related QSs.
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University-Hospital , Padova, Italy.
Mario
M
Plebani
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University-Hospital , Padova, Italy.
Sciacovelli
S
Laura
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