BETA-HCG Testing – Test Update

This will take effect August 11, 2014

Overview and Clinical Utility:

Beginning the week of August 11, 2014, PathGroup Laboratories will change from the current Access Total βhCG assay to the new Access Total βhCG (5th IS) assay. Pathgroup’s vendor for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, Beckman Coulter, recently introduced Access Total 5th IS. The new Total βhCG (5th IS) calibrators are standardized to the World Health Organization (WHO) 5th International Standard (NIBSC Code 07/364). The Access Total βhCG assay is the first βhCG assay to be standardized to the highly purified WHO 5th International Standard.

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