Qualitative conditions

These codes refer to the quality of a specimen. For example, if a blood specimen clotted, this is a qualitative issue that could prevent processing. If there was a qualitative or participant abnormality that would prevent processing but no other code is applicable, the SNP condition code can be used.

Table 1. Qualitative conditions
Code	Description	Usage
BLD	Bloody	The specimen, such as a throat swab, contained blood.
CLT	Clotted	The specimen has clotted, often because the additive did not mix correctly with the specimen.
CTM	Contaminated	The specimen is visibly contaminated.
DCG	Discharge present	A specimen, such as a vagina swab, that contains discharge material
HEM	Hemolyzed	A blood specimen that has hemolyzed.
HUM	Humidity	The specimen has been exposed to high humidity.
ICT	Icteric	There are excessive amounts of bilirubin in the specimen.
LIP	Lipemic	There is excessive fat content in the specimen.
LYS	Lysed	There has been a breakdown of cells in the specimen other than hemolyzation.
NQA	Real-time QA for viability and viable recovery not performed due to low volume of sample collected	Used by a Leukopak processing laboratory to indicate that the full specimen volume needed for PBMC viability and viable recovery QA could not be obtained.
SNP	Sample Not Processed	A generic code for when there is a qualitative issue that prevents an otherwise correctly collected primary from being processed into aliquots, but no other code applies. The Reason sample not collected field should be used in conjunction with SNP.
VPL	Viability percentage may be less than the expected parameter	Used by a processing laboratory to indicate that the PBMC viable percentage of the PBMC specimen may be lower than what's expected.
VRU	Viable recovery may be outside expected parameters (higher or lower)	Used by a processing laboratory to indicate that the PBMC viable recovery of the PBMC specimen may be outside what is expected.