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From: Dr. Steve
Date: 08 Dec 2004
Time: 13:51:11 -0800
Remote Name: 12.10.202.94
One of the more common collector mistakes I see as a very active MRO, are situations where the first specimen is "temp out of range" and the vast variety of things that happen after that! As Dr. Kagan correctly stated, in this instance, the collector should have discarded the first specimen and reported it as a refusal to test. Unfortunately I see 1-2 problems a week like this. Also as Dr. Swotinsky stated, there can be 2 ways of reporting this. I go with the method this is the easiest way for the employer to understand, and the way that it would have been reported if the collector had done things the right way, namely a “refusal to test”. My concern is that it might be a little less clear if you report one cold/negative and another one refusal to test. And since the correct way that this should have been submitted (or in this case not submitted) was only a CCF that has a refusal, this is the way I choose to report this out. We always get an affidavit from the collector and make sure that it is clear that it really was a refusal. For example, last week we got an affidavit from a collector that stated that after receiving a cold specimen, the collector gave the donor 2 options – submit the original cold specimen, or submit another observed specimen – obviously the donor said to submit the original specimen and left. This test had to be cancelled, unfortunately.