Clinical Microbiology-Quality in Laboratory Diagnosis 2012

It is the purpose of this book to address common medical errors seen in the clinical microbiology laboratory, to allow these errors to be appreciated by both clinicians and laboratorians. The errors will be addressed using the following phases of testing; preanalytic testing phase, analytic testing phase, and postanalytic testing phase. In particular, those medical errors in the preanalytic and postanalytic testing phases will be stressed, as errors in the analytic phase of test