Standard: Specimen identification and integrity.

1. Law
2. CFR 42
3. Public Health
4. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services
5. Standards and Certification
6. Laboratory Requirements
7. Quality System for Nonwaived Testing
8. General Laboratory Systems
9. Standard: Specimen identification and integrity.

§ 493.1232 Standard: Specimen identification and integrity.

The laboratory must establish and follow written policies and procedures that ensure positive identification and optimum integrity of a patient's specimen from the time of collection or receipt of the specimen through completion of testing and reporting of results.

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