Keep your operations running smoothly with exceptional labeling solutions Laboratory labeling solutions significantly impact the quality-of-care healthcare providers give patients. According to a study of 120 healthcare institutions, nearly 56% of identification errors in the lab were caused by specimen labeling errors. High-quality laboratory labeling solutions facilitate accurate diagnoses and proper treatments for the correct patients. However, ineffective laboratory labels can cause any number of repercussions: • Diagnostic errors • Wrong treatments • Misidentified specimens • Redraw costs • Reduced productivity • Risks to patient safety • Litigation • Lost samples that can’t be redrawn, such as biopsy tissue in addition to impacting patient care, misidentified specimens can incur costs of approximately $280,000 per million specimens, with redraws, retesting, and additional treatment costing $400 million annually. Healthcare providers face enough challenges on a day-to-day basis. Laboratory labels should be the last thing they need to be concerned about. 56% of identification errors in the lab were caused by specimen labeling errors. Our reliable solutions are designed for a wide range of containers and applications, including: • Specimen tubes and slides • Petri dishes • Breast milk management • Blood bags • Point of care specimen labeling Zebra Certified Supplies: Consistently Exceptional and Exceptionally Consistent Zebra’s provides a wide offering of laboratory labeling solutions for: • Specimen collection, considering the container shape and material • A wide variety of tests, ensuring they are readable when subjected to stains and chemicals • Storage, accounting for lengths of time and variance in temperature in refrigerators and freezers Our solutions perform consistently with every order so that every label is readable and scannable at the end of each lab test. Zebra laboratory labels help you deliver accurate test results to the correct patients for proper treatments in a timely manner. Verified for challenging surfaces and testing conditions There are a host of challenging surfaces and testing conditions laboratory labels must solve. Labeling solutions must adapt to flat surfaces or curved surfaces of different sizes, as well as fluctuations in temperature, test equipment, and exposure to solvents and stains during testing procedures. Any one of these factors can compromise the label. Labels on slides, for example, may lose adhesion when they are subject to testing stains. Also, it is common for labels to unstick or “flag” when they are put on small curved surfaces and spun in a centrifuge. They may fall off completely, or technicians have to smooth them back on, which can impact efficiency, readability, and errors. • In our Supplies R&D Lab we test labels to ensure they withstand specific temperatures in heating and cooling, and they resist xylene, alcohols, hematoxylin, and other solvents and stains. • Zebra solutions stay affixed to the most challenging surfaces, such as small curved surfaces, using flexible material and special adhesives. • Zebra blood bag labels meet ISBT 128 requirements and won’t leach through surfaces or contaminate blood. Zebra labeling solutions meet CLSI AUTO12-A standards The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) developed AUTO12-A standards to prevent specimens in clinical laboratories from being mislabeled. AUTO12-A standards specify label sizes, and locations and formats for data required to be human-readable, such as a patient’s name. The standards also specify how to truncate long patient names, location and size of barcodes on labels, orientation of labels on specimen tubes, and other requirements.