RT Journal
A1 Carroll GJ
T1 ARchives of errors
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1959
FD August 15
VO 170
IS 16
SP 2014
OP 2014
DO 10.1001/jama.1959.03010160130023
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03010160130023
AB To the Editor:— 
    The Council on Clinical Chemistry of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists has established an Archives of Errors for the accumulation and dissemination of errors in leading textbooks and journals relating to clinical pathology. Most persons in the practice of clinical pathology are aware that corrections of published errors pertaining to laboratory tests are often not published by textbooks and journals. The Council on Clinical Chemistry hopes to accumulate a list of some of these errors for distribution to people working in the laboratory so that they can profit by the mistakes and corrections of others.Letters were written to the authors of leading textbooks on clinical pathology asking their reaction to such a program; the response was enthusiastic. To date, errata sheets on two textbooks have been made available; one is Annino's "Clinical Chemistry: Principles and Procedures" (Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1956), and the other