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5.4.3 Contaminant Vials
The Contaminant Vial Report lists all the vials in the database that have been marked as
“contaminant.” The report prints in landscape mode. The report provides the following information:
Header: Selection/Sorting/Reporting Criteria, Hospital Information (if configured), Instrument
Number, Instrument Software Version, Report Title, and Date and Time Printed
Body of Report (columns from left to right): Accession, Patient Name (30 characters), Patient ID,
Sequence, Test*/Protocol, Status*, State (column not labeled, body of report shows: ? for
anonymous, vial icon for current, or blank for removed/pending), Service, Location, TIP/TTD (Time
in Protocol for negatives and manual positives, Time To Detection for positives), “was positive”
indicator (plus sign [+] at end of line indicates that a vial that is not currently Positive previously
had a positive result)
* see Section 11 for reported values
Applicable Selection Criteria:
Time Range Sort By
See Figure 5-15 for a sample Contaminant Vials report.
To print a Contaminant Vials Report:
1 From the Status display, select the Reports tab to access the Reports menu.
2 Select the desired report in the menu.
3 Select the desired report criteria by selecting the radio button next to the criteria.
Time Range: Select the From: and To: buttons to select the start and end times (Start of
Protocol). The default time range is from midnight yesterday.
Sort By: Choose 1st and 2nd Sort By field of either: Accession, Hospital Service, Media
(alphabetic), Patient ID, Patient Name, Sequence, Start of Protocol, Location, Status, or None.
The default sort order is by Accession, then by Sequence.
4 Select Print to print the report.