A Quality Initiative to Decrease Pathology Specimen Labeling Errors Using Radiofrequency Identification in a High-Volume Endoscopy Center

Purpose: Our institution has had problems with mislabeling of tissue specimens in our gastrointestinal and colorectal surgery endoscopy units. Most labeling errors have been due to either the wrong patient label or no label being affixed to a specimen bottle. As a result, an initiative was created t... View More