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Said: I agree with Miranda, the Medical Director can choose what acceptable limits they want to use. However, it's always good practice to be able to explain why you choose the limit.  Here is a website with different acceptable limits t...

Said: We have Epic and it is set up that lab collect floors have lactic orders that the phlebotomists can see and access on Rover. Those go to Main Lab. Nurse collect floors have lactic orders routed to nurse or RT collect. Those are done on ...

Said: I divided up the ISTAT error codes into Preventable and Non-Preventable errors.  We monitor the preventable errors and report that on QI reports to the area.  We also monitor the operators and if they get 3 or more preventable...

Said: We decided to have intra and inter device acceptability.  Our director approved a higher TAE % when correlating across the different devices.  Stayed 6% for those and then for ISTAT to ISTAT we use the 4%.  It seems to ha...

Said: We have a mix...some are done with the building automation system but not all.  We have our own temp & humidity min/max devices that we read manually Mon-Fri.  It's a pain, but we just aren't there to have all of it monito...