Re: Turnaround time -Reply

Antony Bakke (bakkea@ohsu.edu)
Mon, 12 May 1997 14:37:38 -0700

Anna Porwit-MacDonald wrote:
"we usually send the (leukemia) report out by fax the same afternoon if the
sample arrived before 2pm or next morning if the sample arrived later in the
afternoon."

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question: Are you speaking of a complete hematopathologist's report with
morphology and markers or are you speaking of the markers alone? We get our
marker numbers to the hematopathologist in the time frame you mentioned, but it
often takes an additional week to get a full written report. The
hematopathologist does call the clinician within 24 hrs in urgent cases and 48
hrs in non-urgent ones.

Tony Bakke, Ph.D.
Director, Clinical Immunology and Flow Cytometry Lab
Oregon Health Sciences University