Precautions for the Medical Laboratory Specimen Reception Process

The step of receiving laboratory specimens may seem like just scanning and logging them into the system, but in reality, many errors occur right here. When a specimen arrives, the first thing I check is whether the patient, the order, the tube, and the test items match, rather than rushing to enter them into the LIS. If any of the following—name, date of birth, barcode, collection time, specimen…