LDMS 13.13.0 for Windows - User Manual

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  • Getting started
    • About Frontier Science
    • About LDMS
    • Migrating from Windows to web versions
    • System requirements
    • Getting LDMS Installed
    • Upgrading to the Latest version of LDMS
    • Setting up an LDMS Client-Server Environment
    • Challenge codes
    • Logging into LDMS for the First Time
    • Acknowledgement of training
    • Changing Users
    • Date and Time in LDMS
    • Setting Up a Printer for LDMS
    • Finding Your Way Around
    • Keyboard Usage
    • Getting Help
  • Patient management
    • Adding a new participant
    • Finding and Modifying Participant Information
    • Merging Participants
    • Using OPID
  • Specimen Management
    • Specimen Identifiers
    • Entering a New Specimen
    • Understanding the Specimen Management screen
      • The Patient Grid
      • The Primary Grid
      • The Aliquot Grid
    • Preloads: Templates for expected collections
      • Using Preloads
      • Defining Preloads
    • What are condition codes
      • Procedural conditions
      • Specimen container conditions
      • Temperature conditions
      • Shipping conditions
      • Qualitative conditions
      • Quantitative conditions
      • Other conditions
    • Correcting data
      • Example corrections
        • Correcting an ID1 for a Specimen
        • Correcting specimen information (other than ID1)
        • Documenting specimens processed or frozen outside an expected window
    • Doing other things with aliquots
      • Finding Aliquots After Logging Them
      • Using Never Store
      • Marking Aliquots for Shipment
      • Assigning an Assay to Aliquots
      • Re-printing Labels
    • Entering special types of specimens
      • Creating Anonymized Specimens
      • Adding Bulk VQA Records
      • Pharmacology Specimens
      • Pharmacology Controls
      • Culture Derivative
      • Astro Numbered Specimen
      • Entering Reagent Information
  • Storage
    • The LDMS Storage Hierarchy
    • Getting around Storage Management
    • Defining a storage system
      • Defining a Freezer Configuration
      • Defining Containers and Levels
      • Modifying and Deactivating Containers and Levels
      • Storing Dried Blood Spot Cards
    • Creating a storage system
      • Adding and removing Freezers
      • Assigning storage locations using Bulk Add
      • Assigning storage locations using a barcode scanner
      • Bulk Add options
      • Removing a specimen from storage
    • Maintaining storage
      • The Storage Structure List Explained
      • Adding Levels and Containers to a Freezer
      • Modifying All the Specimens in a Container
      • Shipping a Storage Unit
      • How LDMS Storage Handles Shipped Specimens
      • Moving and Re-arranging Stored Items
      • Finding Specimens in Storage
      • Storage Reports
      • Storage Change Log (Transactions)
      • Locating Specimens not in Storage
  • Shipping
    • Preparing shipments
      • Creating a New Shipment
      • Finding Containers to Ship
      • Finding Specimens to Ship
      • Selecting a Shipment Destination
      • Setting up the Shipping Container
      • Performing Quality Control on a Shipment
    • Viewing and Modifying Shipments
    • Correcting shipment problems
      • Shipping file with an incorrect shipment date
      • Error with shipment destination
      • Discrepancy between expected and received shipment
      • Lost or Unsatisfactory Shipment
    • Important Shipment Reports
    • Supported shipping file formats
      • CSV shipping files
      • Cross-LIMS shipping files
      • SeraCare shipping files.
    • Sending a Shipment
      • Creating SeraCare shipping files
    • Importing received shipment
      • Importing a Shipment from an LDMS Laboratory
      • Text Shipping File
      • Removing a Received Shipment
    • Compatibility with LDMS for the web
  • Reports
    • LDMS as a Database Front-end
    • Running LDMS's Built-in Reports
    • Using Crystal Reports® Viewer
    • Running Custom Data Retrieval Reports
    • Descriptions of Built-in Reports
      • Admin Reports
      • Anon Reports
      • ATN Reports
      • Culture Reports
      • Exportable Reports
      • Exports Reports
      • Immunology Reports
      • IQA Reports
      • Miscellaneous Reports
      • MT-2 Results Reports
      • P24 Antigen Reports
      • Patient Summary Reports
      • PK (Pharmacology) Reports
      • PHIA reports
      • Preload Reports
      • RNA PCR Reports
      • RNA Reports
      • RPID Reports
      • Shipping Reports
      • Specimen Management Reports
      • Storage Reports
      • VTN Reports
      • WIHS Reports
      • ZEBES Reports
  • Labels
    • Advanced Label Printing
    • Creating a New Label Format
    • Setting the Default Label Size and Format
    • Barcodes
    • Setting the Printer Used to Generate Labels and Reports
    • Printing Test Labels
  • Assays
    • Running an assay means reading data
    • Supported assays
    • Managing assay runs
      • Assigning assays to specimens
        • Assigning assays to specimens
        • Pending assay report
      • Assay Selection tab
      • Creating a new assay run
      • Specimen Thaw Count
      • Adding Specimens and Controls not Logged into LDMS
      • Opening a saved, incomplete run
      • Generating Layout Reports
      • Reviewing Assay Results After They Have Been Read
      • Censor Codes
      • Correcting Errors in Assay Runs
        • Controls with OD Ratio Failure
        • Modifying Dilution and Recalculating
        • Out of Sequence Errors
    • Virology assays
      • Abbott Realtime and COBAS TaqMan
      • Abbott SARS-COV-2 Quant
      • COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 Qualitative
      • Template-based virology assays
        • Creating a Customized Virology Assay Template
        • Running a Template-Based Assay
        • Special information for individual template-based assays
          • NASBA HIV RNA QT
          • Nuclisens HIV RNA QT
          • Roche Amplicor Monitor HIV RT PCR
          • Roche COBAS Amplicor
          • Roche COBAS UltraSensitive
          • Roche UltraSensitive HIV RT PCR
          • Roche HIV DNA PCR
    • Cultures
      • Creating Culture Schedules
      • Creating a Culture
      • Culture Schedule and Harvest Labels
      • Running Culture Harvests on a p24 Antigen Assay
      • Reviewing Results and Terminating Cultures
      • Entering MT-2 Culture Assay Results Using a Culture Supernatant
      • Creating a Specimen from a Culture Harvest
    • p24 Antigen Assays
    • Immunology assays
      • Lymphocyte Proliferation Assay (LPA) Assay
      • Apoptosis by P.I. Assay
      • Advanced Flow and TUNEL Assays
      • Natural Killer Cell (NK) Assay
      • Cryopreservation
    • Pharmacology assays
      • Creating PK assay templates
      • Entering PK assay results
      • Using spreadsheet view
      • Applying user censors to PK runs
      • Reviewing and accepting PK assay results
    • GeneXpert Assay
    • The Test Result Entry tool
      • Creating a new template
      • Modifying an existing template
      • Entering results
      • Filters
      • PHIA country-specific template settings
      • Test Result Entry reports
    • Managing controls
      • Setting up Assay Kit Information
      • Setting up VQA Kits
      • Pharmacology Control Charting
      • Virology Control Charting
      • Pharmacology QC and Calibration Lot Entry
    • Using assay device readers
      • Associating an Assay with a Reader
      • Creating a Reader Configuration
    • LDMS Remote Reader
      • What is LDMS Remote Reader
      • Configuring LDMS to use LDMS Remote Reader
      • Configuring LDMS Remote Reader
      • Reading Assay Output using LDMS Remote Reader
  • Printers
    • Setting up the Brady IP300 printer
    • Setting up the Brady® MVP 300 printer
    • Setting up the LabXpert printer
    • Setting up the Zebra® GX 430t printer
    • Setting up the Brady BBP11-34L printer
    • Setting up the Brady® BBP33 printer
    • Setting up the Brady BMP53 printer
    • Setting up the Brady BP-PR 300 printer
    • Setting up the Zebra ZD620 Printer
    • Setting up other printers
  • Preset groups
    • ACTG/IMPAACT
    • AERAS
    • AIEDRP
    • AIS
    • AMC
    • ATN
    • BHP
    • BM
    • Botswana MOH
    • CEMALB
    • CHAVI
    • CIPRA-HT
    • CIPRA-ZA
    • CIPRA
    • CONTROL
    • CoVPN
    • CPCRA
    • CPQA
    • FACTS
    • HN
    • HPTN
    • IPREX
    • IQA
    • IRC
    • KENPHIA2
    • MACS
    • MAVRC
    • mStudy
    • MTCT
    • MTN
    • MWCCS
    • NICHD-Westat
    • PHACS
    • PHIA
    • REPRIEVE
    • SHIMS
    • SNRP
    • TIES
    • VQA
    • VTN
    • WHIN
    • WIHS
    • WITS
    • WITSRepos
    • ZEBS
    • ZIP
  • Administration and maintenance
    • System Configuration
    • Managing users
      • Creating New Users
      • Adjusting User Permissions
      • Modifying Users and Passwords
      • Adjusting Login Security
    • group Configuration
    • Backups
    • Exports and Updates
    • Activity Log
    • Recovering from an Unexpected Shutdown
  • Frequently asked questions
    • Frequently Asked Questions about LDMS
  • Codes, units, and abbreviations
    • Specimen type codes
      • Primary codes
      • Additive codes
      • Derivative codes
      • Sub additive/derivative codes
    • Condition codes
    • Unit codes
      • Measurement codes
      • Time unit codes
      • Visit codes
    • Assay Codes
      • Reasons for not running an assay censor codes
      • Immunology assay codes
        • Reasons why results were not obtained for immunology assays
        • Immunology user censor codes
      • Virology assay codes
        • Virology user censor codes
        • HIV DNA PCR (Roche Amplicor Detect)
        • HIV DNA PCR (Roche Amplicor Detect) 1.5
        • Roche Amplicor HIV Monitor (RT PCR) assay censor codes
        • Roche Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor UltraSensitive assay censor codes
        • Roche COBAS Amplicor HIV-1 MONITOR Test, UltraSensitive
        • Roche COBAS Amplicor HIV-1 MONITOR assay censor codes
        • Roche COBAS Ampliprep/COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 assay censor codes
        • COBAS TaqMan HCV assay censor codes
        • COBAS TaqMan HIV-1 Qual assay censor codes
        • Abbott Realtime HIV-1 and Abbott SARS-COV-2 Quant assay censor codes
        • NASBA HIV-1 RNA assay censor codes
        • Nuclisens HIV-1 QT assay censor codes
      • Pharmacology assay codes
        • Pharmacology analyte codes
        • Pharmacology system censor codes
        • Pharmacology assay user censor codes
        • Pharmacology concentration units
      • P24 system censor codes
      • GeneXpert MTB-RIF system censor codes