Bilaga 4 Cost of poor sample quality May 2013 Euromedlab Poster

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Cost of poor quality

By AAAAA BAIIAH · Published 2026-11-09 · Updated 2026-11-15

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To use data collected from institutions on the effects of blood specimen rejection due to errors in the preanalytical phase to develop a model to estimate the opportunity cost of sample rejection to an institution. In order to provide data on where to focus resources to reduce inefficiencies in their healthcare system. Data were collected by interviewing staff at institutions in different countries with similar developed healthcare environments (Fig. 1). Interviews were conducted in three main areas of patient treatment (inpatient critical, inpatient elective & outpatient), hospital administration and laboratory diagnostics. Staff involved in patient treatment were selected from different areas to ensure that the likely consequences and outcomes, and so associated costs, for different types of patients were captured (Fig. 2). The institutions (N=10) varied in size from 326 to 1,200 beds, Figure 1, with an operating budget of between € 41 million and € 1.1 billion, Figure 2. The number of blood tests per month was between 37,000 and 458,000, Figure 3, equating to a range of 33 to 688 tests per bed per month, Figure 4. The number of tests per bed per month is significantly …

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