Clinical Chemistry Podcast

Invention and Validation of an Automated Camera System That Uses Optical Character Recognition to Identify Patient Name Mislabeled Specimens

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Sinopsis

Although standardization of barcodes and label formats has lowered the number of mislabeled specimens in clinical laboratories, it remains a potential source of pre-analytical error. Published error rates of mislabeled specimens range up to as high as just over 1 percent.