Recollection Information and Courses from MediaLab, Inc.
These are the MediaLab courses that cover Recollection and links to relevant pages within the course.
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| Donor provides the specimen The collector directs the donor to go into the restroom and provide a specimen. The collector must remind the donor to guard against flushing the commode or washing hands until the donor has handed his or her specimen to the collector. (Note: Inadvertently flushing the commode does not automatically require any corrective action by the collector or a recollection. However, to avoid this happening, the collector may want to place obvious signage in the restroom with instructions not to flush the commode or to wash hands.)The collector may set a reasonable time limit for the donor to be inside the restroom. Since the temperature of the specimen must be read without four minutes of urination, a time limit of four minutes in most cases is not unreasonable. The collector should pay close attention to the donor during the entire collection process to note any conduct that clearly indicates an attempt to substitute, adulterate, or dilute the specimen. | View Page |
| Observed collection procedure (2) In an observed collection, the observer must be the same gender as the donor. If an observed collection must be made, and the collector is not the same gender as the donor, it is the responsibility of the collector to locate someone who is the same gender as the donor to act as the observer. If the collector is not the observer, the donor can not hand the specimen to the observer but must only hand it to the collector. It is, however, the responsibility of the observer to make sure the donor directly hands the specimen to the collector. | View Page |
| Pre-analytic and hidden errors can greatly affect a laboratory result.Match the error listed below with the cause from the drop-down box. | View Page |