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From: Robert Swotinsky MD
Password: orange
Date: 07 Apr 2008
Time: 11:14:18 -0700
Remote Name: 141.149.176.191
Karen, Please clarify. When you refer to the "lab copy of the results," are you referring to CCF copy 1? If so, then you're correct: Under the DOT rule, the donor's name is not supposed to go on the CCF. This provision was put in the rule from its initiation to prevent anyone at the lab from knowing whose specimen was whose. That way, the lab staff would remain blinded as to the donors whose specimens they handle. In reality, soon after any specimen arrives at a lab, the specimen is aliquoted and reassigned with lab accession numbers that accompany the specimen through analysis. So, peoples' names may reach the accessioning table at the lab, but they don't get much further than that. Bottom line: Putting the donor's name on the CCF is an error and the collector should be reminded not to do that. But, it's not an error that voids the test's reliability.