Errors in laboratory medicine.

By P. Bonini, Mario Plebani, F. Ceriotti, F. Rubboli. Clinical Chemistry, 2002

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Improving Diagnosis in Health Care (2015, neutral): “A review published in 2002 (that only classified the diagnostic testing process in three phases) found that 32 to 75 percent of errors occurred in the pre-analytic phase, 13 to 32 percent in the analytic phase, and 9 to 31 percent in the post-analytic phase (Bonini et al., 2002).”
Errors in a stat laboratory: types and frequencies 10 years later. (2007, background): “The results of our study and others (7–9) have led to wide agreement that the total testing process is the best framework for evaluating and reducing error rates in laboratory medicine and wide acceptance of the proposed definition for laboratory error as a defect occurring at any part of the labora”
Errors in clinical laboratories or errors in laboratory medicine? (2006, background): “between outpatients and inpatients (7).”