Tube number of Serum, Plasma or Blood   46963-5

LOINC Code


LOINC code46963-5
nameTube number of Serum, Plasma or Blood
statusACTIVE

Fully-Specified Name

componentTube number
propertyID  =  Identifier
timePt  =  Point in time:  To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements.
systemSer/Plas/Bld
    Ser  =  Serum
    Plas  =  Plasma
    Bld  =  Whole blood
scaleNom  =  Nominal:  Nominal or categorical responses that do not have a natural ordering. (e.g., names of bacteria, reported as answers, categories of appearance that do not have a natural ordering, such as, yellow, clear, bloody.
method

Additional Names

short nameTube # SerPlBld

Basic Attributes

classSPEC
type1  Laboratory
order vs. observationObservation

Associated Observations

LOINC codes that represent optional associated observation(s) for a clinical observation or laboratory test. A LOINC term may represent a single associated observation or panel containing several associated observations.

History/Usage

test rank5351 of 2000 most commonly performed tests by labs in USA
first released
last updated2.73
last change typeMIN  - change to field other than name
change reasonUpdated System from "Bld" to "Ser/Plas/Bld" so this term can be used to represent the tube number for whole blood, serum or plasma specimen tubes.

Related Names

Blood
Ident
Identifier
No
Nominal
Num
Pl
PlasBld
Plasma
Plsm
Point in time
Random
SerP
SerPl
SerPlas
SerPlBld
Serum
Serum or plasma
Serum, plasma or whole blood
SPEC
SR
Tube #
WB
Whole blood

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