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Specimen Rejection

Any of the following will necessitate specimen recollection:

• Unlabelled specimens.
• Specimens collected without the use of a RTSIS form.
• Specimens collected without the RTSIS number being banded to the patient.
• Specimens collected without patient identification number.
• Specimens collected without patient name.
• Specimens with multiple minor errors in the name and/or identification number.
• Patient identification on requisition is completely different from the specimen.
• Unable to obtain missing documentation of collector/identifier.
• Multiple patient identification on the requisition or specimen.
• When directed by Transfusion Medicine staff to confirm patient identification (e.g. ABO and/or Rh of current specimen do not match historical records).
  In all cases where specimens for pretransfusion testing have been rejected, the appropriate patient care unit will be notified of the rejection and a request for recollection will be made.

Corrections to labelling by the collector will be allowed in the following cases:

• Specimens with minor transcription errors in the name or number (but not both).
• First name omissions.
• Requisition/RTSIS form received without signature. Collector and/or identifier must sign before issue of blood product.
• RTSIS number not placed on the specimen, providing that the specimen was received with the RTSIS form and with no other specimens.
• Patient name and number not on the RTSIS form, providing that a requisition or transmittal bearing the correct patient identification is received with the RTSIS form.
• Information that is not legible by the Transfusion Medicine staff

In all cases where changes are required, the person making the changes must sign a Transfusion Medicine Mislabeled Specimen Report form.