CEO SUMMARY: When pathology labs discover instances of a misidentified or contaminated tissue specimen, there is a new service that allows them to retrospectively use DNA to properly match that specimen to the correct patient. In part two of our series, we look at how some pathology labs are using the Know Error service to […]
Pathology Labs Want Method To Correct Specimen ID Errors
New system can accurately match misidentified specimen with right patient
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XX No. 1 - January 22, 2013 Issue
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