Preventing Laboratory Error and Improving Patient Safety – the Role of Non-laboratory Trained Healthcare Professionals

•Laboratory errors are not isolated and unpredictable entities, but reflect the constituents of the entire healthcare system.•Clinicians contribute to the pre-analytic phase of laboratory practice and have an important role in preventing pre-analytic laboratory errors.•Routine review of laboratory errors and non-conforming events within a just culture serve as opportunities to improve patient safety.