Error Reduction: Error Reporting

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Direct Error Detection

Even perfect systems designs cannot avert human limitations. Medical errors occur and they have to be detected before they can be resolved.

Sometimes people directly observe and immediately report these mistakes.

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Patients

Laboratory professionals who make mistakes

Other medical professionals

Other individuals

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