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Requisitions & Collection Instructions

Nosotros have launched a centralized service to take fax and email electronic requisitions for patients and nosotros take seen an overwhelming increment in utilization of this service. If you would like to transport a digital requisition directly to LifeLabs yourself, please follow the steps in the link below.

Requisitions

To ensure the timely and accurate processing of all lab samples, it'south of import that samples are accompanied by the right requisition, completed in its entirety. In lodge to meet the unique needs of each provincial healthcare organisation, please use the class for the province in which you are located. For utilise only by authorized healthcare providers

Cardiovascular

PULS (Protein Unstable Lesion Signature)

Colon Cancer Cheque

Cytology

Naturopathic Healthcare Providers

Ontario Forms

Special Coagulation

Standard Laboratory Requisitions

BC Forms

Cardiovascular

PULS (Protein Unstable Lesion Signature)

Genetics

Infection

Maternity Care - Standard Out-Patient Laboratory Requisition

Allergen

Naturopathic Healthcare Providers

Emailing & faxing requisitions

Every day, we procedure thousands of requisitions manually and then customers tin can visit whatsoever LifeLabs collection eye.

To email a patient'southward requisition, delight follow the steps below:

  1. Create ane e-mail per patient
    2. E-mail a PDF copy of the requisition to the dedicated email accost

BC: PatientREQSBC@lifelabs.com

ON: PatientREQSON@lifelabs.com

  1. Use the patient's legal starting time proper name and final name equally the subject line

To fax a patient's requisition, delight apply the following fax numbers:

ON Fax Number: 905-795-9891

BC Fax Number: 1-888-674-0370

*Disclaimer: LifeLabs is accepting requisitions via electronic mail to support our patients who present to a Patient Service Centre with an electronic requisition. There is a risk of inappropriate disclosure when emailing a requisition from a public email domain. The patient is responsible for the security of the electronic copy of the requisition when it is on their mobile device or when information technology is emailed from the patient'due south public email domain to LifeLabs. LifeLabs volition maintain the security of the requisition when it is received by LifeLabs.

To help us process requisitions efficiently:

  • Fax or email a single requisition at a time;
  • Record only the patient's kickoff and last name in the subject line;
  • We aim to procedure requisitions within 24 hours of submission. To allow plenty time for processing, delight ask your patients to wait until the side by side mean solar day to visit one of our collection centres. If that is not possible, we recommend that they bring a physical copy of their requisition to the LifeLabs drove centre instead.
  • If you lot transport the requisition to your patient, yous do not demand to fax or email information technology to u.s.a., every bit we volition be processing the patient'due south copy.
  • A note about ordering requisitions & booking appointments: emailed or faxed requisitions accept near 24 hours for our systems to process. If a requisition is emailed past a health intendance provider or patient, please remind the patient to allow for 24 hours processing time when booking an engagement. If a patient is able to print their requisition, we encourage booking an appointment the same day as their medical appointment.

Specimen Collection & Handling

We want to provide the highest quality lab results as speedily as possible. That'due south why we need to ensure that all samples are collected and handled in a fashion that protects the testing integrity. To meet the unique needs of each provincial healthcare organization and our lab facilities across the county, please refer to the instructions for the province in which you are located. For apply only past authorized healthcare providers

Chemical science

Cytology

Electrocardiogram (ECH)

Flow Cytometry Testing

General Handling and Collection Instructions

Human Papillomavirus (HPV)

Microbiology

Tissue Biopsy

General Handling and Collection Instructions

Microbiology

Contact Us

If you have any questions near treatment instructions, please contact your Client Intendance Centre