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Pre-analytical workstations: A tool for reducing laboratory errorsGiorgio Da Rin laboratory Medicine, ASL Bassano del Grappa, Italyabstractarticle infoArticle history:Received 9 March 2009Accepted 10 March 2009Available online 18 March 2009Keywords: laboratory errorsTotal testing processInformation technologyPre- analytical phaseRoboticsPatient identificationPatient safetyLaboratory testing, a highly complex process commonly called the total testing process (TTP), is usuallysubdivided into three traditional (pre-, intra-, and post-) analytical phases. The majority of errors in TTPoriginate in the Pre-analytical phase, being due to individual or system design defects.

Pre-analytical workstations: A tool for reducing laboratory errors Giorgio Da Rin⁎ Laboratory Medicine, ASL no.3 Bassano del Grappa, Italy article info abstract Article history:

  Laboratory, Errors, Analytical, Laboratory errors