>er, our lithium heparin tubes are green
So are ours. And our reports are in matching green!
Haematology reports are pink (which matched the colour of EDTA tubes until
we got purple vacutainer ones!
Joe Begley
Poole
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Collins [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: 27 January 2000 11:27
>> To: 'ACB'; Eric Kilpatrick
>> Subject: Re: Biochemistry Report Colours
>>
>> Eric Kilpatrick wrote:
>>
>> > We are in the process of changing the colour of our reports to
>> > distinguish them from haematology and immunology ones for case
>> > note filing purposes. At present we have pink mount sheets and
>> > haematology have red. To avoid confusion it has been proposed
>> > that we move to green as this is 'the national standard'. The
>> > only problem is that this then clashes with our radiology mount
>> > sheet.
>> It's true that all biochemistry forms in every lab I've worked in
>> were green.
>> Surely a more sensible colour would be orange for all forms to
>> match the colour of lithium heparin tubes. Every year when the
>> new housemen start we get urgent U&Es in green coagulation
>> tubes because the tubes are the same colour as the
>> biochemistry request forms.
>> Mike Collins
>>
>> Mike Collins MLSO3
>> Clinical Biochemistry & Immunology
>> The General Infirmary at Leeds,
>> Old Medical School, Thoresby Place
>> Leeds LS1 3EX, UK
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>> 44 (0) 113 392 2915
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