Over the decades, BD has worked diligently to remove pre-analytic variables and improve testing speed and precision to ensure that each patient gets the most accurate test result as quickly as possible.
Many opportunities remain to further improve the specimen management process.
The lack of a systems approach to specimen management offers substantial opportunity for information-based, more automated solutions. Specimen errors significantly reduce the quality of care in an institution and increase costs. Because specimen errors cause fewer deaths and malpractice suits than medication errors, they are less well-studied and researched. More about the problem. BD has applied its extensive clinical knowledge of the specimen collection process to develop a system designed to reduce specimen collection errors.