[Histonet] Re: Preventing slide labeling mistakes

[Ann Lowder]

Tim,

Labeling mistakes are difficult to fix if you are already not 
batch-labeling.  However, sometimes you can help by rearranging how you 
put your information on the slide.  For example, we have surgical 
numbers like P09-12345, but if you break that number up into two lines 
like P09 on the top and 12345 below, there are less numbers to 
overlook.  If you have block letters and numbers too like we do, try 
putting them on the opposite side of the surgical number.  It is much 
easier to catch a mistake in a string of 3 or 4 numbers versus 6 or 7. 
Hope this helps.

P09     A
1234    1

Ann Lowder, HT(ASCP)
Manager of Pathology
Presbyterian Hospital, NC