Materials and Methods Instrumentation

tification System have been interfaced with the SMA 6/60 and the SMA 12/60. This installation, firstof itskind,accuratelyconvertsand condenses SMA output into compact, easily read reports, with concomitantly increased efficiencyin serum handling and accuracy in patient identification. We needed to add to the SMA 6/60 and 12/60 Analyzer systems a system that would automat-ically prepare reports and that would identify a specimen with the patient and the analytical re-sults. The system I describe meets these require-ments