Analyzing Information and Courses from MediaLab, Inc.
These are the MediaLab courses that cover Analyzing and links to relevant pages within the course.
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| Analyzing Medical Events You can use your understanding of medical errors, adverse events, and near misses to examine medical situations that have unexpected, negative outcomes.
You analyze these situations by asking several questions: What happened before, during, and after the situation?Who and what factors and circumstances are involved?Were established standard practices followed?Did a medical error or errors lead to this situation? | View Page |
| RCA Steps
Steps in Root Cause Analysis | View Page |
| Preanalytic Medical Errors Medical errors are possible at any phase of patient care.
Preanalytic medical errors begin with the patient and the places he or she receives medical care--the bedside, chair-side, hospital, clinic-- wherever the patient is located.
The possibility for these errors continues through the ordering processes for medical tests or procedures.
Preanalytic medical errors also happen with the systems, processes, and procedures involved in the collection of test samples from patients.
These medical errors occur during the time before the laboratory is directly involved in assaying and analyzing test samples.
Examples of preanalytic medical errors:
Wrong patient
Wrong test
Wrong timing
Wrong collection procedure
Wrong tube, container, additive
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| Analytic Medical Errors Medical errors also occur in the analytic processes and systems of patient care.
Analytic errors begin with problems in the transportation of medical samples for testing. These occur between the patient's location and the testing facility. They happen during the time between specimen collection and arrival in the testing facility.
The possibility for analytic medical error continues through the analytic processes and procedures of medical testing.
Analytic medical error also includes systems, processes, and procedures involved in the transmission and reporting of test results.
These medical errors occur during the time the laboratory is directly involved in receiving, analyzing, and reporting test samples.
Examples:
Wrong transport storage or temperature
Delay in transport
Sample mixup during transport
Acceptance of unacceptable samples that are insufficient, hemolyzed, or clotted
Centrifugation, mixing, and other test sample preparation errors
Wrong test procedures
Test control errors
Sample mixup during testing
Outdated reagents
Wrong reagents
Test result mixup
Transcription errors
Data reporting process errors
Result report delays | View Page |