Abstract
are avoidable. Clerical and identification errors are responsible for a large fraction of such outcomes, and as many as 40% of errors occur during the preanalytical phase of testing. Reduction of human involvement in this process can result in improved patient safety, with fewer errors due to sample misidentification. Automation can also reduce sample processing time. While our primary intention is to discuss automation in the clinical pathology laboratory, it must be emphasized that, ideally, implementation of automation should be coupled with process review. Automation often allows optimization of processes in ways that are not possible in a manual laboratory, and implementation of automation without thorough assessment of current laboratory processes is likely to result in missed
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