June 24, 2015

Summer is officially here and temperatures are heating up! PathGroup would like to remind all clients that specimens must be kept from extreme temperatures in order to provide optimal stability and validity for patient results. To preserve specimen stability during the summer months, PathGroup recommends specimens be placed in the lockbox 30 minutes before your scheduled courier pick up or as close to your scheduled pick up time as possible. Purple top tubes for Complete Blood Count (CBC) analysis, in particular, must be kept cool.

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