Subject: | | Single Accession numbers |
From: | | "Elizabeth MacNamara, Department of Diagnostic Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4A 2W8" <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | Elizabeth MacNamara, Department of Diagnostic Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4A 2W8 |
Date: | | Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:17:21 -0500 |
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I well remember discussing this very topic into the small hours of the
morning and being asked by the managemnt of a fine hotel to please keep
quite other guests were trying to sleep. The close friend of mine, Judy
Stone, and I were attending an AACC and obviously had had too good a night
at some company's expense. She was adamantly against the idea and I was
sold on it. I can honestly say that in my present laboratory we use a
single accession number with good results. We used it to amalgamate the
laboratories together. The secret to it is a good archive and retrieval
system. Our archive system, supplied by Roche Diagnostics as part of the
automation of our Biochemistry section, has only two stations. The first
archives Hematology samples for CBC (FBC) as they are kept for one day and
have often to be retrieved for slide preparation. They are all thrown out
the second day. The rest of the samples are kept for one week and are
archived together regardless of their work station. It takes about 5
seconds to find their location and about thirty to actually go and get them
from the fridge. Samples which are kept for long TAT's and need to be
frozen are not at the moment being archived 'en mass" but we are beginning
to look at it. We have no problems documenting different problems with
quality of the specimen specific to the specimen, they have different
suffixes in our LIS (SCC are the suppliers). Much of the information on
quality, such as hemolysis, lipeamia and icterus is documented
automatically on the 917 biochemistry analyser using several wavelenghts
and not by the technologist eyeballing the specimen.
We have not had any probelms with a single accession numbering system and
we would very reluctantly return to a multiple system. We even use it for
the bacteriology specimen now including blood cultures.
I hope this is of use
Elizabeth Mac Namara
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