Continuous Collaborative Efforts and Concurrent Use of Quality Metrics Help Reduce Preanalytical Blood Sample Integrity Error

Abstract

With the impending exit of the fee-for-service payment structure for healthcare expenses, reducing clinical laboratory error becomes a necessity and patient safety issue. Quality metric-driven performance improvement interventions will play a pivotal role in this process. At our institution, a well-established infrastructure is in place to record, collect, and analyze such quality assessment data. …