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:
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Urine
protein
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Urine
protein level
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Urine
protein/creatinine index
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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
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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