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Said: My facility has been encountering an issue in which patients admitted from the ED are being "discharged" by our middleware. This creates a problem at bedside when operators scan the patients admission wristband. The CSN account has been...

Said: I cannot state how relieved I am that this does not happen at my facility.  We do have plastic arm bands, and we use a 12 digit encounter number, not the medical record (whose digits vary).  By only allowing 12 digits on the g...

Said: This issue has been a huge thorn in my side!!! I agree if people would please check the scan is correct when the meter says it isn't before selecting override a lot of this wouldn't be an issue.  But I dream and digress.Sta...

Said: Hi, we have this statement in our Analytical Correlation workbook and procedure, approved by our Senior Clinical Laboratory Director. " Results must agree within the Total Allowable Error limits for like devices. *** For i-STAT to Sysme...

Said: We experienced this as well.  We could hit 4% for the Instrument Correlations but not Method.  I had searched and read on this list serv that the 4% was acceptability criteria for proficiency testing.  I created an SBAR f...