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> 2 The referral lab could report > directly to the clinician and cut out the home lab altogether. > In that way there is a clear > demonstrable responsibility on the reporting lab and the > receiving clinician not only > knows where the test was carried out but also the > accreditation and quality status > of that department. I've always thought this is an undesirable approach. By insisting that the report comes back to the referring laboratory: 1 The report can be found 2 The request can be "closed", and the laboratory can keep an eye on TaTs 3 The referring laboratory knows it is OK to pay In order to try and keep this policy effective we (as referring laboratory) only pay if the request goes out through us, and the report comes back through us. How many clinicians understand anything about laboratory accreditation or laboratory quality management? Dr Jonathan Kay On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 03:27 , David.Williams@RBBH- TR.ANGLOX.NHS.UK wrote: > Some time ago there was some discussion about how to send out reports > to requesters that have been received back from from reference > laboratories. I stated that I understood that CPA still required that > all such reports should state the name of the reference laboratory and > should identify any comment that had been made by the reference > laboratory. At that time I also wrote to CPA to confirm that this is > the position. CPA (in the shape of Cheryl Blair) has now repied to me > that this point was discussed at the recent Joint Advisory Committee > meeting and this is still CPA's view. The point about who is > responsible if the result and/or interpretive comment gets garbled by > the home laboratory was also discussed. CPA's conclusions were: - > > 1 It is the responsibility of the > home reporting lab to ensure that there are systems > in place to minimise this error > and that ultimately it is not the responsibility of the > referral lab. The referral lab > could add a disclaimer to all reports emphasising this. > > 2 The referral lab could report > directly to the clinician and cut out the home lab altogether. > In that way there is a clear > demonstrable responsibility on the reporting lab and the > receiving clinician not only > knows where the test was carried out but also the > accreditation and quality status > of that department. > > > > David Williams > > ------ACB discussion List Information-------- > This is an open discussion list for the academic and clinical > community working in clinical biochemistry. > Please note, archived messages are public and can be viewed > via the internet. Views expressed are those of the individual and > they are responsible for all message content. > > ACB Web Site > http://www.acb.org.uk > List Archives > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ACB-CLIN-CHEM-GEN.html > List Instructions (How to leave etc.) > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/