Thursday, February 23, 2012

What information should be on a urine specimen container and lab request form?

Can anyone tell me what information should be on a urine specimen container? and a lab request form for urine specimen?

I need to know for a Urine Culture Lab for my Microbiology class. Thank you.What information should be on a urine specimen container and lab request form?On the container should be the patients name and date of birth. On the lab slip should be the patients name, date of birth, referring physician, test to be done, diagnosis, and the physicians signature.What information should be on a urine specimen container and lab request form?specimen labelling per our medical laboratory protocol:

patient name

unique identifying number (i.e. date of birth, medical record #, etc.)

requisition information per our medical laboratory protocol:

name of physician ordering test

date of collection

type of specimen (clean catch, catheter, bladder tap)

patient name

unique identifying number

date of birth

sex

(also ideally: list of antibiotics patient has recently taken, as this may affect culture outcome, and pt. diagnosis)

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