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Does anyone have any experience using the Siemens Clinitek Status +; are there any downsides or restrictive limitations?
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JoAnn, We went live this year with patients but are still having them complete QC documentation on paper. Would you be willing to share your process for entering ranges and information into the Clinitek? Who does it and are there any issues? I would like to tackle that as a next step but worry about users grasping all the steps. We have 34 sites all using different lots and a few different brands of QC. Anything you could share from a training perspective would be appreciated.
Shea,
We have RALS and Clinitek Status analyzers. You have to use the Status Connect. It has a base that also holds a barcode scanner (also purchased separately).
Reine
Hi Terry,
We use RapidComm and Clinitek Status. We keep a master list of all operators in RC and the Cliniteks download this list periodically to keep updated.
Hi Yvonne ,
We are just going live now so this will be a Plan, Do, Study, Act for us and our POCT sites. One way to simplify the QC process is for everyone to use the same QC product. In theory, once areas receive their QC shipment, we will make barcodes in our lab and scan them back to the departments to use and we will verify the ranges. One good thing about urine QC is that the ranges are broad and do not change very often. Pretty much, negative is negative and the positive is basically the whole range of the stick. If we do need to make changes, my POCT techs will be responsible for the changes in machine. IF you have a fabulous Super User, they could also make the changes. It really is not that hard if you have a good step by step recipe for them.
After we launch a few machines into the live environment, I am sure we will be making some tweaks here and there. POCT is continuous education and improvement!
JoAnn
to Terry:
No, we do not use RapidCOMM.
Anyone have Peggy Mann;s contact info at UTMB? I am working on moving the clinics under my program from visual to Clinitek and then interfacing them. Still in the 1990's here are trying to convince my health system to spend money.
Hi, I'm Peggy Mann and I am a member of this listserve so feel free to email me through this resource.
Please note that, while someone else mentioned a Clinitek study we did, there is a publication in the works by other members of the team so I am not able to provide any information other than the few slides from the study - which were in a poster we did for AACC 2018.
BUT please note that we ended up doing the study WITHOUT the Cliniteks being interfaced - it was NOT accomplished. That was our goal to collect data for the study but the POC Director and I then had to change the primary goals since the lab was unable to connect the clinics' Cliniteks. They still are not connected.
Peggy