Re: Turnaround time

From: Anna Porwit-MacDonald (anpo@mb.ks.se)
Date: Mon May 12 1997 - 03:27:44 EST


Hi,
In leukemia cases, especially in children we usually send the report out by 
fax the same afternoon if the sample arrived before 2pm or next morning if 
the sample arrived later in the afternoon.
Best wishes,
Anna Porwit-MacDonald
Haematopathology Lab.,
Karolinska Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

>A question for the clinical florals.
>
>When processing a leuk. specimen from an outside source, what is the
>average time for a report to be sent out ?
>We have a "sister" hospital where some of the clinicians seem to feel that
>doing a full leukaemia phenotype takes no longer than running a simple CBC
>!
>Needless to say they know nothing whatsoever about flow.
>I just thought I'd get a feel for the speed of the service we give as
>compared to other providers.
>There is no costing involved - this is a free service to all the hospitals
>here in Oman.
>
>Wal Sharp
>SQU
>Oman
>
>



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Apr 03 2002 - 11:49:43 EST