作者: Julie A. Hammerling
关键词: Patient safety 、 Medical physics 、 Health care 、 Alternative medicine 、 Medicine 、 Quality assessment
摘要: While many areas of health care are still struggling with the issue patient safety, laboratory diagnostics has always been a forerunner in pursuing this issue. Significant progress made since release “To Err is Human.” 1 This article briefly reviews quality assessment and looks at recent statistics concerning errors.