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Abstract
Adverse events related to medical errors are common worldwide and largely unreported. However, they represent a serious problem within the health care community, resulting in avoidable loss of life and/or extremely high costs. Likewise, errors in transfusion medicine, which most frequently involve misidentification of the patient, not rarely may have life-threatening consequences. In this review, the errors related to blood transfusion are briefly summarized along with new technologies developed for improving blood safety.
Clin Chem Lab Med 2010;48:1075–7.
Received: 2010-4-8
Accepted: 2010-4-19
Published Online: 2010-06-28
Published in Print: 2010-08-01
©2010 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York
