What Is the Most Common Cause of Clerical Errors in Transfusion

question 29

Multiple Choice

What is the most common cause of clerical errors in transfusion therapy?

• A) Entering an erroneous ABO type
• B) Misidentification of the patient
• C) Entering an erroneous crossmatch result
• D) Labeling units as antigen-positive instead of antigen-negative when phenotyping

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