The NICU staff submits SERS reports on a wide variety of patient care safety issues such as unplanned extubations, inaccurate labeling of medications, and inaccurate labeling of laboratory specimens.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's most secure laboratories may have mislabeled ... being handled prompted lab regulators to conduct a review of the labeling of specimens offered to other labs ...

Four months and a double mastectomy later, doctors told Eason that her tissue sample had been mislabeled ... of a mix-up at the CBLPath medical lab in Rye Brook. Eason sued CBLPath in state ...

Because of a mislabeled ... more than one specimen at a time. NBC’s chief medical editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, said Eason’s case underlines the absolute necessity in a lab of handling samples ...

In a molecular diagnostic laboratory, having a system for tracking specimens, or assays, is integral to workflow efficiency and accuracy. Although streamlining this process often proves to be ...

We use SERS reports to monitor, identify trends, and improve care. Proposals to change practice are based on data and are discussed at monthly unit-based and hospital-wide Safety Group and ICC ...