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Said: Our HaH program issues hospital approved meters to the patients that need to record their own sugars.  The RN also carries one of our POC Accucheck glucometers as well for those who do not have the issued one.   The RN/Command...

Said: Hi Alexandr. I would agree with Kathleen and the reasons she stated for not performing a urine SG on negative urine pregnancy tests.  This practice is not required in our IFU.  If the urine pregnancy result is in question, we ...

Said: Alexandr, the main reason not to do specific gravity is that it would require doing a urine dipstick to get the specific gravity. It's not required in the IFU for any of our urine pregnancy tests, and I don't believe it would be reimbur...

Said: Cathy, Stephanie and Kathleen, thank you for your responses. Would you mind sharing your main rationale for not using a specific gravity test for negative pregnancy tests? As I understand this, the vendors (ICON 20 hCG) do not require s...

Said: Terry Rose, you didn't tell us if the suit was successful. I think it's well known that urine pregnancy tests have limitations, so I'm not sure that's a suit that can be won. We do urine pregnancy via several kits depending on ...