The customer stated that they received an erroneous result for one patient sample tested for the elecsys total psa immunoassay (tpsa) on a cobas 8000 e 602 module (e602).The erroneous result was reported outside of the laboratory to the doctor.The sample initially resulted with no value, only a data flag.The sample was repeated, resulting as 0.019 ng/ml.The result was discrepant from what was expected for the patient.The customer expected a value around 10 ng/ml.The sample was repeated on 11/29/2016, resulting as 10.71 ng/ml.The patient was not adversely affected.The tpsa reagent lot number and expiration date were asked for, but not provided.
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