Guidance on Consent for the Processing and Analysis of Clinical Samples Following an Initial Consultation, Bulletin of the Royal College of Pathologists, 151 (2010) 205. A response to the proposed prescriptive guidelines

Published proposals to restrain a diagnostic laboratory from adding further tests to those originally requested, so-called reflex testing (without prior authority from the patient), would have almost the force of Law and yet act against the interests of all parties nearly every time.