CEO SUMMARY: What does a lab do when it discovers that it has reported inaccurate test results? In 2004, a turnaround team arrived at the laboratory of Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore to deal with the consequences of a failed infectious disease testing program. For about two years, the lab had reported inaccurate HCV and […]
Labs Need to Respond To Inaccurate Results
In 2004, ongoing failures in HCV, HIV testing at a Baltimore hospital lab became national news
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XVI No. 1 - January 12, 2009 Issue
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