In recent decades, this Lab Fishbone Diagram, also known as laboratory skeletons, shorthand for lab values, laboratory fish scales, laboratory short notation diagrams, and so on, has become a popular alternative approach to describe clinical results and laboratory investigations among healthcare workers. This Lab Fishbone Diagram graphically aids in identifying and organizing known or potential causes for a certain problem or area of concern. The identified problem in this theoretical example is a "near miss." Two units of red blood cells were transported to the dialysis area for transfusion to two separate patients. One clinical person hung up the first unit and began just as another person noticed that the team chosen for transfusing another patient had incorrect identifying information.
