Communicating Patient Quality and Safety in Your Hospital.

Discussing medical quality starts with defining quality. Human health care publications identify safety, timeliness, efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and patient centeredness as important components of medical quality. Safety is foremost as medical errors are a leading cause of patient death.

Transfusion medicine in small animals.

This article reviews the use of transfusion medicine in veterinary medicine and discusses current research regarding donor screening and component therapy. Typing and crossmatching methodologies are discussed. Available components, potential uses, and controversies in treatment are also discussed.

Rapid, sensitive micro blood lead analysis: a mass screening technique for lead poisoning.

A rapid micro blood lead method is described. Analyses were performed on 20-microL blood samples spotted on filter paper, collected in graduated heparinized capillary glass tubes following finger pricks. The samples were air dried on filter paper and mailed to the laboratory in glassine envelopes.