Publications

Aita A, Sciacovelli L, Plebani M.
Laboratory-related errors: you cannot manage what you don't measure. You manage what you know and measure.
Diagnosis 2017;4:193-195.

Aita A, Sciacovelli L, Plebani M.
Extra-analytical quality indicators - where to now?
Clin Chem Lab Med 2017 Dec 18pii:/j/cclm.ahead-of-print/cclm-2017-0964/cclm-2017-0964.xml. doi:10.1515/cclm-2017-0964.
[Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29252191.

Sciacovelli L, Panteghini M, Lippi G, Sumarac Z, Cadamuro J, Galoro CAO, Pino Castro IGD, Shcolnik W, Plebani M.
Defining a roadmap for harmonizing quality indicators in Laboratory Medicine: a consensus statement on behalf of the IFCC Working Group "Laboratory Error and Patient Safety" and EFLM Task and Finish Group "Performance specifications for the extra-analytical phases".
Clin Chem Lab Med 2017;55:1478-1488

Plebani M, Sciacovelli L, Aita A.
Quality Indicators for the Total Testing Process.
Clin Lab Med 2017;37(1):187-205.

Lippi G, Sciacovelli L, Simundic AM, Plebani M.
Innovative software for recording preanalytical errors in accord with the IFCC quality indicators.
Clin Chem Lab Med 2017;55(3):e51-e53.

Sciacovelli L, Lippi G, Sumarac Z, West J, Garcia Del Pino Castro I, Furtado Vieira K, Ivanov A, Plebani M; Working Group “Laboratory Errors and Patient Safety” of International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC).
Quality Indicators in Laboratory Medicine: the status of the progress of IFCC Working Group "Laboratory Errors and Patient Safety" project.
Clin Chem Lab Med 2017;55(3):348-357.

Plebani M, O'Kane M, Vermeersch P, Cadamuro J, Oosterhuis W, Sciacovelli L; EFLM Task Force on “Performance specifications for the extra-analytical phases” (TFG-PSEP).
The use of extra-analytical phase quality indicators by clinical laboratories: the results of an international survey.
Clin Chem Lab Med 2016;54(11):e315-e317

Sciacovelli L, Aita A, Padoan A, Pelloso M, Antonelli G, Piva E, Chiozza ML, Plebani M.
Performance criteria and quality indicators for the post-analytical phase.
Clin Chem Lab Med 2016;54:1169-76.

Plebani M, Sciacovelli L, Aita A, Pelloso M, Chiozza ML.
Performance criteria and quality indicators for the pre-analytical phase.
Clin Chem Lab Med 2015;53:943-8. Corrigendum in Chem Lab Med 2015;53:1653

Plebani M, Sciacovelli L, Aita A, Pelloso M, Chiozza ML.
Corrigendum to: Performance criteria and quality indicators for the pre-analytical phase
Clin Chem Lab Med 2015; 53(10): 1653

Plebani M, Astion ML, Barth JH, Chen W, de Oliveira Galoro CA, Escuer MI, Ivanov A, Miller G, Petinos P, Sciacovelli L, Shcolnik W, Simundic AM, Sumarac Z.
Harmonization of quality indicators in laboratory medicine. A preliminary consensus.
Clin Chem Lab Med 2014;52:951-8.

Plebani M, Sciacovelli L, Aita A, Chiozza ML. 
Harmonization of pre-analytical quality indicators.
Biochem Med, 2014;24:105-113.

Plebani M, Sciacovelli L, Aita A, Padoan A, Chiozza ML.
Quality indicators to detect pre-analytical errors in laboratory testing.
Clin Chim Acta 2014;15;432:44-8.

Plebani M, Sciacovelli L, Marinova M, Marcuccitti J, Chiozza ML. 
Quality indicators in laboratory medicine: a fundamental tool for quality and patient safety.
Clin Biochem. 2013 Sep; 46(13-14):1170-4.

Plebani M, Chiozza ML, Sciacovelli L.
Towards harmonization of quality indicators in laboratory medicine.
Clin Chem Lab Med. 2013 Jan; 51(1):187-95.

Sciacovelli L, Sonntag O, Padoan A, Zambon CF, Carraro P, Plebani M.
Monitoring quality indicators in laboratory medicine does not automatically result in quality improvement.
Clin Chem Lab Med. 2011 Dec 5; 50(3):463-9.

Plebani M, Sciacovelli L, Lippi G.
Quality indicators for laboratory diagnostics: consensus is needed.
Ann Clin Biochem. 2011 Sep; 48(Pt 5):479.

Sciacovelli L, O'Kane M, Skaik YA, Caciagli P, Pellegrini C, Da Rin G, Ivanov A, Ghys T, Plebani M; IFCC WG-LEPS.
Quality Indicators in Laboratory Medicine: from theory to practice. Preliminary data from the IFCC Working Group Project "Laboratory Errors and Patient Safety". 
Clin Chem Lab Med. 2011 May; 49(5):835-44.

Sciacovelli L, Plebani M.
The IFCC Working Group on laboratory errors and patient safety.
Clin Chim Acta. 2009 Jun; 404(1):79-85.