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This report describes the rate of sample identification errors over 2\u00a0years in a multispecialty hospital in India and possible measures to decrease these errors.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Various measures were taken to reduce the risk of identification errors during sample collection, laboratory processing and administration of blood. The bedside blood grouping method by the slide agglutination technique was also introduced along with other measures in December 2011 as a risk mitigation step to prevent an <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">ABO<\/jats:styled-content> incompatible transfusion, as well as to provide a method of surveillance for possible errors during transfusion.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The rate of sample identification errors was 48 and 45 per 1\u00a0000\u00a0000 among the total tests billed in 2011 and 2012, respectively. 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