Patient safety: patient identification wristband errors

Articles in the same Issue

1. Editorials
2. Laboratory testing and/or monitoring of the new oral anticoagulants/antithrombotics: for and against?
3. Circulating macrocomplexes: old wine in new bottles?
4. Review
5. Laboratory assessment of new anticoagulants
6. Minireviews
7. Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease
8. Analytical variability in sport hematology: its importance in an antidoping setting
9. The plodding diagnosis of monogenic autoinflammatory diseases in childhood: from the clinical scenery to laboratory investigation
10. Opinion Paper
11. Collective opinion paper on findings of the 2010 convocation of experts on laboratory quality
12. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
13. Genetic variability of the fructosamine 3-kinase gene in diabetic patients
14. Identification of Bcl-2/IgH fusion sequences using real-time PCR and chip-based microcapillary electrophoresis
15. Performance evaluation of a multiplex assay for future use in biomarker discovery efforts to predict body composition
16. Pharmacogenetics of tacrolimus after renal transplantation: analysis of polymorphisms in genes encoding 16 drug metabolizing enzymes
17. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
18. Quality Indicators in Laboratory Medicine: from theory to practice
19. Implementation of computerized add-on testing for hospitalized patients in a large academic medical center
20. Human growth hormone (GH) immunoassay: standardization and clinical implications
21. Coagulation assays based on the Luminescent Oxygen Channeling Immunoassay technology1)
22. Trefoil factor family peptides in human saliva and cyclical cervical mucus. Method evaluation and results on healthy individuals
23. Steroid binding properties of the 2nd WHO International Standard for sex hormone-binding globulin
24. Thyroxin overdose due to rheumatoid factor interferences in thyroid-stimulating hormone assays
25. Cancer Diagnostics
26. Quantification of HER2 autoantibodies in the amplification phenomenon of HER2 in breast cancer
27. Glycosylation of proteins in healthy and neoplastic human salivary glands – a preliminary study
28. Infectious Diseases
29. Quantification of cerebrospinal fluid lactic acid in the differential diagnosis between HIV chronic meningitis and opportunistic meningitis
30. Cardiovascular Diseases
31. Carotid restenosis is associated with plasma ADMA concentrations in carotid endarterectomy patients
32. High concentrations of asymmetric dimethylarginine are associated with ST-segment resolution failure after reperfusion for acute myocardial infarction
33. An increase in serum uric acid concentrations is associated with an increase in the Framingham risk score in Korean adults
34. The effect of a one-year weight reduction program on serum uric acid in overweight/obese children and adolescents
35. False positive troponin result caused by a true macrotroponin
36. Letters to the Editor
37. Patient safety: patient identification wristband errors
38. Prevalence of hemolytic specimens referred for arterial blood gas analysis
39. “Triage” of lymphoid malignancies in the peripheral blood using the Extended Immunofluorescent Application of the CELL-DYN Sapphire automated hematology analyzer
40. Presepsin (sCD14-ST): development and evaluation of one-step ELISA with a new standard that is similar to the form of presepsin in septic patients