Laboratory compliance with federal government and professional society recommendations

✍ Scribed by Lester J. Layfield; Sue Zaleski; Kent Bottles; Michael B. Cohen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 633 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 8755-1039
• DOI: 10.1002/dc.2840110119

✦ Synopsis

OSJe 1990;.5.5:949.5

) regulates the patient identiJiers and clinical data on the requisition form but does not mandate physician compliance to provide the information. We investigated the use of patient identiTers and clinical data by laboratories as specimen acceptance/rejection criteria. We surveyed 81 board certified cytopathologists and 23.5 randomly selected cytology laboratories for acceptance criteria of cytology specimens and received responses from 104. Approximately two thirds of all responding laboratories had specific criteria for rejecting specimens on the basis of inadequate identijcation or clinical data. While the vast majority required the specimens to be identiTed with patient name, collection date, and specimen source, a minority of laboratories required clinical information such as LMP, prior atypical cytologic/histologic specimens, and history of previous therapy. Little correlation was found between practice setting and the use of rejection criteria.