Question 5: Taking BTS samples

Question

Required information is often not filled in correctly and unlabelled

Wrongly labelled or inadequately labelled specimens will not be accepted by the Blood Tranfusion (BTS) laboratory and you will be asked to repeat the sample

Care is needed when taking a sample

Answer true or false for the points of patient reference which must be labelled correctly on the sample and request form being sent to BTS:

Unique identification number

Age

Surname

First name

Ethnicity

Smoker

Date of birth

Weight