Officials: Hospital made blood test errors

NEW YORK State officials said Friday the errors stemmed from the mislabeling of blood samples from six patients who were treated by outpatient clinics at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center.

Hospital spokesman Erroll Schneer says the hospital believes the errors were "isolated incidents."

But Schneer says the hospital will retest as many as 920 patients who had been tested between April and December 2008 just to be safe.

State Health Department spokeswoman Claire Pospisil says officials are looking into whether the errors caused any patients to receive the wrong diagnosis or medication.


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