A helpful feature related to this issue would be for each blood tube to have a unique ID barcode added by the manufacturer (and systems that can read and understand them). Besides the issues that David mentioned, it would also log which tube was used for analysis when there are two identical tubes available. (This would also allow checking the lot number, expiration date, etc. of the tube used when needed.)
I thought a person in one lab I visited while shopping for a chemistry analyzer told me they were using such barcoded sample tubes, but I apparently heard wrong.
-Jim Miller, Louisville, KY, USA
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