Laboratory Kitting Services Test with integrity.
It all starts here. Your lab is at the heart of improving patient outcomes. Because the work you do is that important, the integrity of your results is everything. Accurate results start with the integrity of your specimens, which relies on pre-analytical activities not always under your control. How can you be sure your collection protocols are being met? What can you do to help control product usage and drive standardization? A specimen collection kit can help you achieve specimen integrity, without adding more costs or workload to a budget and staff already stretched too thin. When it comes to collection kits, no one size fits all. We re here to help you create the kit that works best for you, your clinicians, your patients. Everyone.
Lab results are essential to your reputation, built by delivering quality and consistency under an umbrella of compliance and safety. Specimen collection kits help decrease turnaround times and contamination rates, 1 which can help to ensure staff and patient satisfaction. Your reputation rests on all of this. More than a convenience, the right specimen collection kits offer an effective combination of products, packaging, instructions, compliant labeling and the ability to track and receive specimens in your lab safely and on time, whether that s between hospital floors, down the street or across the country. Inspiring confidence. The right specimen kits help inspire confidence.
Depending on your needs and application, the right collection kit helps: More than assembling kits, we re helping to ensure the integrity of your lab results. We understand the challenges and opportunities of the lab from the inside. We know the importance of following standard protocols and because we work with hundreds of laboratorians just like you, we can share fresh insights and best practices. Your Cardinal Health Laboratory Kitting Advisor will custom configure precisely what you need. We re not limited by the types of kits we can offer: blood and urine, biopsies and genetic testing, screenings and convenience kits. You tell us the challenge, and we ll create the kit that supports your protocols across your entire organization wherever the patient may be. Beyond the kit itself, we ll work to understand your clinical demand and develop a program to ensure there s always an ample supply on hand. Plus, we ll assess the need to track specimens throughout your process and create a solution that helps monitor their safe and timely arrival to your lab. The solution just for you. Drive greater adherence to specimen collection protocols Reduce specimen contamination rates 1,2,3,4 Minimize false positive test results 4 Simplify workflow and training Decrease turnaround time Ensure physician, clinician and patient satisfaction Drive more value out of your budget Lower total costs 1 Reduce labor costs 1 Drive standardization and reduce SKUs Drive efficiency of ordering and inventory management Minimize untraceable lots
Beyond the right products and instructions, each kit can help you achieve: The unique combination of specimen integrity, staff efficiency and ultimately patient satisfaction. These are the three essentials that protect and enhance your reputation with every test, every day. More than a commodity, your kit becomes a strategy for improving the cost and quality of care. When you demonstrate how the right specimen collection kits can help ensure specimen integrity while lowering the total cost of care, you become a champion for change in the new healthcare world. Your kit, your success.
Customize your kit. What belongs in your kit? Your Cardinal Health Laboratory Kitting Advisor will help you determine the most effective configuration for your collection needs. Box imprinting with logos and artwork Foam insert design for components Collection instruction printing or inserts Requisition forms Return shippers and labeling Box or bag design based on kit configuration
Think inside the box. Specimen collection kits help you achieve the three essentials of every lab. 1Specimen integrity 2Staff efficiency 3Patient satisfaction Adherence to collection protocols Adequate specimen quantity Less contamination 1,2,3,4 Improved turnaround Laboratorians and clinicians: More time for patients Materials management: More efficient ordering and less material handling Fewer retests 1,2,3 Faster treatment 1,2,3,4 Shorter hospital stays 1,2,3
Specimen collection kits help you achieve the three essentials of every lab. 1 Self WH, Talbot TR, Paul BR, Collins SP, Ward MJ. Cost Analysis of Strategies to Reduce Blood Culture Contamination in the Emergency Department: Sterile Collection Kits and Phlebotomy Teams. Infection control and hospital epidemiology: the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America. 2014;35(8):1021-1028. 2 Boyce JM, Nadeau J, Dumigan D, Miller D, Dubowsky C, Reilly L, Hannon CV. Obtaining Blood Cultures by Venipuncture versus from Central Lines: Impact on Blood Culture Contamination Rates and Potential Effect on Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection Reporting. Infection control and hospital epidemiology: the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America. 2013;34(10):1042-1047. For more information, contact your Cardinal Health sales representative, 800.964.5227 or visit cardinalhealth.com. 3 Self WH, Speroff T, Grijalva CG, McNaughton CD, Ashburn J, Liu D, Arbogast PG, Russ S, Storrow AB, Talbot TR. Reducing Blood Culture Contamination in the Emergency Department: An Interrupted Time Series Quality Improvement Study. Academic emergency medicine: official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. 2013;20:89-97. 4 Marini MA, Truog AW. Reducing False Positive Peripheral Blood Cultures in a Pediatric Emergency Department. Journal of emergency nursing. 2013;(39)5:440-446. 2015 Cardinal Health. All Rights Reserved. CARDINAL HEALTH, the Cardinal Health LOGO and ESSENTIAL TO CARE are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cardinal Health. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Lit. No. 2LAB15-405410-1 (11/2015) cardinalhealth.com