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Quality Control Strategy
Severity of Harm Survey #1

The key goal of this survey is to estimate the severity of patient harm associate with an incorrect reported result for a selected panel of common analytes tested in a medical laboratory. The purpose is to use your medical lab knowledge to establish an international consensual classification which can be used to improve patient risk management.
1.How would you rate the severity of patient harm if a clinician would interpret incorrect reported results from these analytes?

N.B: As we understand that an erroneous result could generate different severity of harm depending on clinical context and error depth we advise you to consider the most unfavorable situation that can occur in your lab activity.
  • Negligible - inconvenience or temporary discomfort
  • Minor - temporary injury or impairment not requiring medical intervention
  • Serious - injury or impairment requiring medical intervention
  • Critical - permanent impairment or life-threatening injury
  • Catastrophic - patient death
(Required.)
Neglible
Minor
Serious
Critical
Catastrophic
Sodium Serum/plasma
Potassium Serum/plasma
Troponin Serum/plasma
Glucose Serum/plasma
Creatinine Serum/plasma
Phosphorus Serum/plasma
ALT Serum/plasma
Lipase Serum/plasma
Protein (Total) Serum/plasma
Iron Serum/plasma
Albumin Serum/plasma
Digoxin Serum/plasma
TSH Serum/plasma
Cancer antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) Serum/plasma
hCG Total Serum/plasma
Haemoglobin Whole Blood
Platelet Whole Blood
DD-dimer Plasma
Fibrinogen Plasma
Prothrombin time Plasma
About you
2.In what country do you work?(Required.)
3.What is your background?(Required.)
4.What is your principal medical lab activity:(Required.)
5.Are you working in a:(Required.)
6.Please provide any feedback or comments you wanted to share regarding this survey, that could help us moving forward.
7.What are the 10 additional analytes you would like to be classified in the future if we were to run a second survey?
8.Would you like to receive the survey results? Leave your contact details below and we will contact you.
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