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James Beck posted a reply on Re: BD Urinalysis Tubes and Clinitek Instrument

Tuesday, Feb 10, 2026 at 12:34 PM

Said: I believe you can; I believe the issue with the BD UA preservative tube is it makes the sample incompatible with some other common lab urine assays that are not UA.

Brittany Behrendt posted a new Topic

Tuesday, Feb 10, 2026 at 12:28 PM

GEM to Sunquest Direct

Do other institutions have their GEMs auto file to Sunquest without Telcor/RALS? If so, do you have GEM send over pH values or the pH temperature corrected values? Is there a benefit of doing temperature corrected? We are having issues with the pH(t) values auto filing into the charts when there is < or > value attached since it can't do the calculation for the temperature correction. Has anyone found a way around this?

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Anastasia Augustine posted a new Topic

Tuesday, Feb 10, 2026 at 10:57 AM

BD Urinalysis Tubes and Clinitek Instrument

Can you use the BD Vacutainer® urinalysis preservative tube with the Clinitek and multistix 10SG strips? This has recently come up and I am on my way to a meeting but I have usually used the KOVA tubes and not these tubes.

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Kathleen David posted a reply on Re: Precision Dx multi panel urine drug testin...

Tuesday, Feb 10, 2026 at 10:21 AM

Said: If your manufacturer's instructions for use do not mention external QC, then it is not required. However, it is good laboratory practice. In our procedure, we require external QC per new lot/shipment, and we also use external QC for ope...