2026-03-12
Where the TAT clock should start on a busy accession bench
Receipt stamps, LIS accession, and centrifuge start are three different moments. Mixing them inflates or hides delay.
Field notes
Writing from accession windows and analyzer lines
2026-01-28
Describing night-shift backlog without blaming the night crew
Overnight coagulation and blood-gas work arrives in pulses. Averages hide the pulse.
2025-11-04
Verification holds, add-on tests, and why the queue looks frozen
A tube that finished the analyzer can still wait for a senior check or an add-on from the ward.
2025-08-19
Reading Levey–Jennings charts with the whole bench, not only quality
A trend session works when the people who load reagents can point at the day the lot changed.