Medical Errors: Factors That Contribute to Medical Errors
These statements describe sources of laboratory-related errors.
Choose the correct match for each statement from the drop-down box. Click OK when you are done.
| A technician draws and submits a lavender top blood sample with clots in it for a post-operative hemogram test. |
| The technologist identifies a person as the patient in room 112, bed two before drawing a blood specimen for chemistry testing. |
| The technologist incorrectly identified the blood type of a person who receives a blood transfusion. |
| A call to report an abnormally high potassium result does not get through and the technician waits ten minutes before calling again. |
