These statements describe sources of laboratory-related errors.

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These statements describe sources of laboratory-related errors.

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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.