krhodes

Thanks everyone. We are not charging...good news. I agree with everyone about not changing the results. I like the ordered test suggestion whereby we can add additional comments. I have posed the question to CAP...and will let you know what they say.

Correct...not a computer glitch...written in the procedure to "change" the negative interpretation to positive. Causes the LIS to give a QA failure which is then overridden. Then the procedure tells them to order the ABID, enter the previously ID antibody and add a comment that the antibody is below detectable limits. I am mystified!!!! Any inspectors out there with an opinion and a few standards I can use to shoot this down???? I know that if I answered a CAP survey...it would fail! So the results are SC1 = 0 SC2 = 0 SC3 = 0 Interpretation = POS ABID = anti-E, currently below detectable limits.

I just discovered that if a historic clinically significant antibody screen is positive, but the current sample is negative...the reactions are being reported out as negative, but the interpretation is being reported as positive. Anyone heard of this??? Where could they have gotten justification????

Is anyone out there using the new Ortho MTS Gel Workstation? If so, what thermometer are you using to take daily temperatures?

What if the patient is not currently being transfused...do you send the sample and the crossmatched units with the patient to the new facility?

Theme days...Monday Italian, Tue-American day, Wed-hawaiain, Thurs-Mexican, Fri-Beach day. We are providing the main course and the techs are signing up for the extra's. Games...guess the scrub--pics of techs scrubs...up close...put name to scrub. Guess the item...pics of everyday lab items...up really close. Puzzles...and daily name drawings for prizes.