L’errore nel laboratorio di Microbiologia

• Main Authors: Paolo Lanzafame, Assunta Sartor
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: PAGEPress Publications 2006-03-01
• Series: Microbiologia Medica
• Subjects: Errors, Microbiology
• Online Access: http://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/mm/article/view/2956

Error management plays one of the most important roles in facility process improvement efforts. By detecting and reducing errors quality and patient care improve. The records of errors was analysed over a period of 6 months and another was used to study the potential bias in the registrations.The percentage of errors detected was 0,17% (normalised 1720 ppm) and the errors in the pre-analytical phase was the largest part.The major rate of errors was generated by the peripheral centres which send only sometimes the microbiology tests and don’t know well the specific procedures to collect and storage biological samples.The errors in the management of laboratory supplies were reported too. The conclusion is that improving operators training, in particular concerning samples collection and storage, is very important and that an affective system of error detection should be employed to determine the causes and the best corrective action should be applied.