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Editorial
. 2005 Feb;31(2):66-7, 61.
doi: 10.1016/s1553-7250(05)31010-5.

Doing better with critical test results

David W Bates, Lucian L Leape
Editorial

Doing better with critical test results

David W Bates et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2005 Feb.

Abstract

Health care should achieve the goals that no critical test result is lost and that all such results are managed with a speed appropriate to their urgency.

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