LabGuides Tutorials
LabGuides are short tutorials designed to help you meet the acceptance criteria for certain specimens sent to the DSHS Laboratory. Improper collection, documentation, storage, or shipment of specimens are primary reasons they are considered unsatisfactory for testing by the Laboratory and discarded.
Correct specimen preparation and handling is beneficial for all involved. For the Laboratory, it helps ensure the quality of test results and compliance with regulatory requirements, and it meets test manufacturers’ specimen acceptance criteria. For the provider, it avoids the added expense, delays in prompt diagnosis of medical condition or illness, disruption of health services, and possibly additional discomfort for the patient.
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- Certificates of Accreditation
- The Laboratorian News
- Annual Laboratory Customer Service Survey
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- We Are Newborn Screening
- DNA Analysis Laboratory
- Newborn Screening Notices
- Newborn Screening - Use and Storage of Dried Blood Spots after NBS
- Newborn Screening - Use of NBS Blood Spots after Completion of Newborn Screening
- Newborn Screening Parent Resources
- NBS Annual Report
- Newborn Screening - Frequently Asked Questions
- Austin Laboratory Correspondence and Bulletins
- Directory of DSHS Laboratory Tests and Specimen Requirements
- LabGuides Tutorials
- Laboratory Fee Schedule
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- Environmental Tests - Food and Food Products
- Strongyloides IgG
- Uranium Isotopes – Drinking Water
- Laboratory Testing Services Manual - Specimen Receiving, Lab Hours, Holidays
- Laboratory Testing Services Manual - Guidelines for Specimen Shipping and Mailing
- Laboratory Testing Services Manual - Guidelines for Specimen Collection and Submission
- Laboratory Testing Services Manual - Forms and Laboratory Fee Schedule
- Laboratory Testing Services Manual - Local Health Department Laboratories
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Laboratory Testing Services Manual - Laboratory Tests for Diseases and Agents Open submenu links Close submenu links
- Mailing and Shipping Information
- Patient Results Request