Foreword

Articles in the same Issue

1. Foreword
2. Errors in laboratory medicine and patient safety: the road ahead
3. How can we make laboratory testing safer?
4. “Pre-pre” and “post-post” analytical error: high-incidence patient safety hazards involving the clinical laboratory
5. Risk management in the preanalytical phase of laboratory testing
6. Recommendations for detection and management of unsuitable samples in clinical laboratories
7. Effects of analytic variations in creatinine measurements on the classification of renal disease using estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)
8. Process and risk analysis to reduce errors in clinical laboratories
9. Reduction of multi-dimensional laboratory data to a two-dimensional plot: a novel technique for the identification of laboratory error
10. Does external evaluation of laboratories improve patient safety?
11. Risk management in laboratory medicine: quality assurance programs and professional competence
12. Point-of-care testing, medical error, and patient safety: a 2007 assessment
13. Blood gas and patient safety: considerations based on experience developed in accordance with the Risk Management perspective
14. The role of in vitro diagnostic companies in reducing laboratory error
15. Application of the Six Sigma concept in clinical laboratories: a review
16. One hundred years of laboratory testing and patient safety