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Decreasing Surgical Specimen-Handling Errors: A Network Quality Improvement Journey
Patient Safety# Background Surgical specimen handling is a complex, multidisciplinary process that involves ordering, collecting, labeling, preserving, transporting, testing, and reporting results so a patient receives a diagnosis or treatment plan.
Sara Angelilli +2 more
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Lung cancer specimen guidelines for handling and reporting
Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2008 The proper handling of a lung specimen by a competent pathologist is the most important step to reach an accurate diagnosis and to generate a comprehensive pathology report that will characterize patient management and prognosis.
Bamefleh Hanaa
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Correlation of subjective and objective handling of vehicle behaviour [PDF]
, 2002 This thesis presents the results of a research project which sought to find links between driver subjective ratings and objective measures of vehicle handling.
Ash, Howard Alan Simon
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Handling the “difficult” biopsy specimen
Journal of Pathology of Nepal, 2014 No abstract available.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpn.v4i7.10323 Journal of Pathology of Nepal (2014) Vol. 4, I
JB Thapa
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Dependence of TIMP-1 plasma levels on preanalytical specimen handling [PDF]
, 2008 Background: Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1 (TIMP-1) in blood might be a helpful biomarker in various diseases. However, various authors report that TIMP-1 is dependent on preanalytical procedures.
Doss, Robert +13 more
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Analysing the performance of an automated pathology specimen handling system [PDF]
, 2008 This paper determines the performance of a pathology specimen handling system currently under development that performs two fundamental functions, sample tube sorting and sample tube aliquoting. In order to do this a novel capacity model and a simulation
Kozan, Erhan, Burdett, Robert L.
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A Biaxial Fatigue Specimen for Uniaxial Loading [PDF]
, 2011 The aim of this paper is to present a novel un-notched fatigue test specimen in which a biaxial stress state is achieved using a uniaxial loading condition.
LEBRUN, Jean-Lou +3 more
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Preanalytical nonconformity management regarding primary tube mixing in Brazil [PDF]
Journal of Medical Biochemistry, 2017 Background: The multifaceted clinical laboratory process is divided in three essential phases: the preanalytical, analytical and postanalytical phase. Problems emerging from the preanalytical phase are responsible for more than 60% of laboratory errors ...
Lima-Oliveira Gabriel +4 more
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Impact of Educational Activities in Reducing Pre-Analytical Laboratory Errors : A quality initiative
Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2017 Objectives: Pre-analytic errors during diagnostic laboratory investigations can lead to increased patient morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to ascertain the effect of educational nursing activities on the incidence of pre-analytical errors ...
Hamed Al-Ghaithi +5 more
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Voided Urinary Microbiota Is Stable Over Time but Impacted by Post Void Storage
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2020 Background: New sensitive techniques have revealed a thriving bacterial community in the human urinary tract, challenging the perception that urine in healthy humans is sterile.
Caspar Bundgaard-Nielsen +21 more
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