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Test Code URPHOSPHORUSR Phosphorus, Urine, Random, ARUP #0020478

Important Note

**This specimen requires an adjusted pH to 1.5-2.0 by adding 6M HCL.  This will be completed at WKN by the laboratory staff.  Please send specimens refrigerated in order to do so.  WKN will send the specimen frozen to ARUP Laboratories once pH has been adjusted.

Infectious

Additional Codes

ARUP Test Code:

0020478

 

MEDITECH MNEMONIC:

URPHOSPHORUSR

Specimen Requirements

Preferred Specimen:

3mL random urine

 

Minimum Volume:

0.5mL (this volume does not allow for reflex or repeat testing)

 

Setup Schedule:

SUN-SAT

Transport Temperature/Stability

Transport Container:

Transport Tube

 

Preferred Transport Temperature:

Refrigerated (do not send specimen frozen)

 

Specimen Stability:

Ambient:  24 hours

Refrigerated:  14 days

Frozen:  30 days

Performing Laboratory

ARUP Laboratories

500 Chipeta Way

Salt Lake City, UT  84108