Dear Colleagues
 
An Alert has be raised following an incident associated with the reporting of urine protein. Currently the Pathology Bounded Code List contains a number of entries:
 
·         Urine protein
·         Urine protein level
·         Urine protein/creatinine index
·         Urine protein/creatinine ratio
·         24 hour urine protein output
The proposal from the Pathology Catalogues Executive Team is to reduce entries to just two items
·         24 hour urine protein output - mg/24h
·         Random urine protein:creatinine ratio (new entry) - mg/mmol
Obviously full analyte name reporting including verbal communication is essential
 
Regards
 
Gifford

Dr Gifford Batstone
MBBS, BSc, FRCPath, MSc
Tel 01962 860761
Mob 0791 285 9344
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