Background Clinical laboratory errors have a great impact on patient safety and treatment.
Although specimen rejections result in longer turnaround times and increased health-care …

Healthcare budgets worldwide are under constant pressure to reduce costs while improving
efficiency and quality. This phenomenon is also visible in clinical laboratories. Efficiency …

Efficient and effective clinical laboratory (CL) services have a key position in health-care
systems. It is important to define the CL performance indicators to improve patient …

Methods: All samples received in the Hematology Laboratory of the Maternity and Pediatric
Hospital in Hail for 3 years were retrospectively reviewed and evaluated for preanalytical …

Background: Laboratory services have been described as the major processes contributing
to safe patient care in the modern healthcare sector. However, occurrences of errors in the …

Background Specimen labeling errors have long plagued the laboratory industry putting
patients at risk of transfusion-related death, medication errors, misdiagnosis, and patient …

Background: In January 2010, the implementation of quality management systems toward
WHO-AFRO laboratory accreditation commenced in the Antiretroviral Treatment Laboratory …

Early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV provides an opportunity for early HIV detection and
access to appropriate Antiretroviral treatment (ART). Dried Blood Spot (DBS) samples are …

Purpose Data comprise one of the key resources currently used in organizations. High-
quality data are those that are appropriate for use by the customer. The quality of data is a …

AIM: To study the impact of rejection at different levels of health care by retrospectively
reviewing records of dried blood spot samples received at the molecular laboratory for …