As with many other labs I suspect we are currently battling with an avalanche (?flood) of urine specimens for protein:creatinine and albumin:creatinine ratios.
To enable us to cope more effectively one suggestion was to ask the patient to provide a urine specimen in a 5ml pot which we can then place directly on the analyser, rather than having to make and label a separate
aliquot from a 25ml universal.
I just wondered how other labs asked patients to collect urine specimens for this purpose and if anyone had abandoned the 25ml universal? I appreciate that there may be issues around the practicalities of collection
- without wanting to dwell on the obvious, most woman already collect their specimen in a temporary container and then decant into the universal, whereas I suspect that most men don't.
As always, any thoughts or suggestions would be gratefully received.
Kind regards
Louise
Louise Tilbrook
Principal Clinical Scientist
Dept of Clinical Biochemistry
Mid Essex Hospitals NHS Trust
Chelmsford
CM1 7ET
01245 515036
07919 016847
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