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.
Code | Description | Usage |
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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. |