Figure 1.

Display of preferred name on the identification labels. (a) Preferred name display on Zebra/Stickman labels. The preferred name is in quotation marks. (b) Preferred name display on laboratory information system (Beaker Clinical Pathology) label. In this case, there is sufficient room to display the preferred name in quotation marks. (c) Laboratory information system (Beaker Clinical Pathology) label where there is insufficient room to display the preferred name. In this case, the surname is truncated by an asterisk