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			<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">GJRA</journal-id>
			<journal-title>GJRA - Global Journal For Research Analysis</journal-title>
			<issn pub-type="ppub">2250 - 1991</issn>
			<publisher>
				<publisher-name>Indian Society for Health and Advanced Research</publisher-name>
			</publisher>
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			<article-id pub-id-type="other">gjra-8-5-11007</article-id>
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					<subject>Original Research Paper</subject>
				</subj-group>
			</article-categories>
			<title-group>
				<article-title>DETECTION AND LEARNING FROM CLINICAL LABORATORY ERRORS: A PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT METHODOLOGY.</article-title>
			</title-group>
			<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author">
						<name>
							<surname>Manjiri</surname>
							<given-names>S. Bhalkar</given-names>
							<prefix>Dr.</prefix>
						</name>
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						</contrib><contrib contrib-type="author">
						<name>
							<surname>Dr.</surname>
							<given-names>Rohini Bhadre</given-names>
							<prefix>Dr.</prefix>
						</name>
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						</contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub">
				<month>May</month>
				<year>2019</year>
			</pub-date>
			<volume>8</volume>
			<issue>5</issue>
			<fpage>01</fpage>
			<lpage>02</lpage>
			<abstract>
				<title>ABSTRACT</title>
				<p>Introduction :Mistakes in the &amp;ldquo;Total Testing Process&amp;rdquo; are called &amp;ldquo;Laboratory Errors.&amp;rdquo;
Laboratory services have a great influence on clinical decision making, hence there is a need to investigate any possible error in the &amp;ldquo;Total Testing Process.&amp;rdquo;
Errors are broadly divided into preanalytical, analytical &amp;amp; postanalytical categories.
A simple practice of maintaining &amp;ldquo;Error Register&amp;rdquo; and analyzing the reported errors can pin point at the probable modification required in the process design.
Methods :All errors were recorded in a register. The root cause analysis was carried out for each error reported for six months.The necessary corrective action was decided to avoid future errors.
In order to know the trend a bar graph was plotted for number of errors per month.
Percentage of pre analytical, analytical and post analytical errors was calculated.
Results :Among the total errors 75% are pre-analytical, 7.1% are analytical and 17.9% are post-analytical errors. Phlebotomy training for staff &amp;amp; bidirectional interphasing of instruments are most important corrections required.
Conclusion :Maintaining an error reporting register is very simple, cost effective and performance improving method.
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