Mike Collins wrote:
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The IBMS recently pulished a report of a court case in which a
comment about a haemolysed sample - advising that the
results should be interpreted with caution - was held to apply
to a blood gas sample which had the same labnumber. Is
seems as if the law requires different numbers for different
sample types.
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That makes a lot of sense to me. However, some Lab ISs (including ours) insist
on giving the same ID number to ALL samples drawn at the same time from the same
patient. This creates major problems when you try to consolidate most of your
testing on one platform, as you have to make sure that, for example, phenytoin
is done on a sample from a plain serum tube and not on a sample from a serum
separator tube.
I wish the LIS manufacturers would take notice of this and all adopt the " One
vacutainer - One ID number " concept...
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