Room temperature thermometers for physician's office
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I was recently asked if the thermometers for monitoring room temperatures used in the physician's offices have to calibration certificates. I know that they have to be able to monitor min/max temps. Do they also have to have calibration certificates? I thought they did but I was looking for confirmation one way or the other. Is it required by CLIA? Would anyone know which CAP standard addresses this issue?
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Not sure if it is a CLIA directive, but there are points starting with COM.30250, and a section starting with COM.30750 for this.
Hi Charlene,
I feel the easiest way to deal with thermometers, is when you purchase Min/Max thermometers from say Fisher, they come with a certificate of calibration and also an expiration date. Save the certificates in a binder to show at inspection time. When they expire, we dispose of them and purchase new thermometers. They have a pretty good expiration date.
If you are CAP you do need to show calibration of your thermometers. Not sure of other accreditation agencies.
JoAnn
I keep the certificates that come with the thermometer in a binder, and yearly, I perform the "calibration verification" by taking the temperature against the NIST thermometer that Blood bank has, at 4 time intervals and sign off on the log. Keep that with the certificates. Put a hand made sticker on the thermometer ; calibrated and with the date.
We buy the Min/Max from Fisher. They are calibrated for 2 years.
It comes with a certificate that says so.
No one has the time to do calibration with the NSB standard.
The company will calibrate it for you for $50, so we just buy new ones every 2 years.
The cost of a new one is less than $50.
So we figure, we spend $25/ year/ location.
WE buy them all at the same time so the calibration expiration dates are the same.
Great idea! Thanks!
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Agree with all above - easiest route is to just buy new when the calibration certificate expires. Seems wasteful, but is all around the best fit.
Thank you for all the good input.
Char