With a long-held commitment to continuously improving the quality and safety of patient care, Mayo Clinic researchers are recommending a new technologically-advanced labeling system aimed at reducing ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- With a long-held commitment to continuously improving the quality and safety of patient care, Mayo Clinic researchers are recommending a new technologically-advanced labeling ...

ROCHESTER, Minn., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists at the Mayo Clinic say they are using radio frequency identification, a technology known as RFID, to reduce lab specimen labeling errors. The RFID ...

* Context. - The labeling of paraffin blocks and microscopic glass slides in the practice of surgical pathology varies from institution to institution and introduces ...

Up to 70 percent of errors associated with lab results happen way before the tests are even analyzed, according to a report from ECRI Institute’s Patient Safety Organization. Getting a delayed ...

RFID labeling has cut down significantly on errors at one unit of Mayo Clinic, according to a new study. A new system implemented last year at the clinic’s high-volume gastroenterology and colorectal ...

Good Samaritan Hospital’s laboratory regularly failed to follow up on labeling problems that put patients at risk of errors such as receiving the wrong blood type, while Union Memorial Hospital’s ...

Several years ago, United Hospital, in St. Paul, Minn., made headlines when it informed a patient she had breast cancer and then—two days after undergoing a double ...