General and Special Laboratory Collection Instructions and Requisitions

Requisitions

If you are an outside client, please use of the following documents to submit a requisition. We recommend printing requisitions as a double-sided document to ensure that page 2 is included and filled out completely.

If you are a physician, please call 720-777-6711 or email labclientservices@childrenscolorado.org.

If you are a Children’s Colorado staff member looking for referral or downtime lab requisitions, please refer to our internal laboratory department site.

• Clinical lab test list (.pdf)
• Precision diagnostics requisitions and instructions
  • Precision diagnostics – inherited genetic disease (previously molecular genetics) requisition (.pdf)
  • Inherited disease prenatal collection and handling (.pdf)
  • Collection and handling for inherited disease specimens (.pdf)
  • Precision diagnostics – oncology and chimerism by STR (previously molecular diagnostics) requisition (.pdf) 
  • Oncology Gene List (.pdf)
• General core lab requisition (.pdf) — Not to be used for internal CHCO downtime
• Microbiology lab requisition (.pdf)
• Biochemical Genetics Lab Requisition (.pdf)
  • Collection and handling for biochem specimens (.pdf)
  • Collection and handling for TMAu specimens (.pdf)
• Mitochondrial lab requisition (.pdf)
  • Collection and handling for mitochondrial specimens (.pdf)
• Anatomical pathology lab requisition (.pdf)
• Electron Microscopy (EM) lab requisition (.pdf)
• Immunology and Flow Cytometry lab requisition (.pdf)

General collection instructions

Please see the rest of the Test Directory for collection instructions not listed below.

At Home Collection Instructions

• Finger Stick (.pdf) 
• Heel Stick (.pdf)

At Home – Buccal Swab Collection Instructions

• English (.pdf)
• Spanish (.pdf)

Bag Urine Collection Instructions for Infants & Small Children

• English (.pdf) 
• Spanish (.pdf)

Clean Catch Urine Collection Instructions

• English (.pdf) 
• Spanish (.pdf)

Timed Urine Collection Instructions

• English (.pdf) 
• Spanish (.pdf)

Stool Collection Instructions

• English (.pdf) 
• Spanish (.pdf)
• At Home Collection Reference Guide (.pdf)

Sweat Testing Information

• English (.pdf) 
• Spanish (.pdf)

Special collection instructions

• Bone Marrow Specimen Handling and Transport (.pdf)
• CDC HIV Testing Algorithm for Serum and Plasma Specimens (.pdf)
• Chain of Custody Instructions (.pdf)
• Cytology Specimen Collection and Handling (.pdf)
• Glucose Tolerance Testing Instructions (.pdf)
• Microbiology Blood Culture Collection Guideline - Catheter (.pdf) 
• Microbiology Blood Culture Collection Guideline - Peripheral (.pdf)
• Microbiology Cepheid CT/NG Vaginal Sample Collection (English) (.pdf)
• Microbiology Cepheid CT/NG Vaginal Sample Collection (Spanish) (.pdf)
• Microbiology Cepheid Xpert CT/NG Endocervical Collection (.pdf)
• Microbiology Herpes or Varicella Virus Collection Instructions (.pdf)
• Microbiology MRSA Collection Instructions (other than newborns) (.pdf)
• Microbiology Quantiferon Blood Collection Instructions (.pdf)
• Microbiology Throat Swab (.pdf)
• Respiratory Pathogen PCR Algorithm (.pdf)
• Gastrointestinal Pathogen Testing Algorithm (.pdf)

Sending specimens and samples to the Children's Colorado laboratories

Please note that we prefer and highly recommend shipping samples to us via FedEx. If you are sending us a critical sample please call 720-777-6711 or email our Lab Client Services Center using our online form ahead of time and provide us with the tracking and test information for the sample you are sending.

If you are dropping off a stool or urine specimen, please review our Specimen Drop-Off Locations document for the proper labeling process and drop off times.

Children's Hospital Colorado
Clinical Lab – Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
13123 East 16th Avenue B120, Rm B0200
Aurora, CO 80045