Yes, we have been experiencing the same thing for over a year now. We have had a mixture positives and negatives when repeated.
We are unable to run QFT’s in house. Our lab director has sent several of these cases to our contracted lab for review. No definitive answer as to why this is occurring.
Kami Jones, RN
Director of Quality, Infection Prevention & Employee Health
Bingham Healthcare
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Speak with Qaigen. We had this happen about 8 years ago at UCLA. Got the UCLA lab director involved and turned out it was an issue with the test temporarily. We had to repeat them again but with new test kits
the positive rate went back to what it had been. Warner
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On Sep 25, 2023, at 12:46 PM, Welch, Linda E via MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh@mylist.net> wrote:
We are seeing an unusually high number of positive QuantiFERONs for new hires without risk or history. We repeat the Quant and it is positive as well. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Linda Welch MSN, RN, ACNS
Manager of Clinical Operations
SCR Employee Health Services
IU Health Bloomington
583 S. Clarizz
Bloomington, IN 47402
T: 812.353.5193 F: 812.323.4434 LWelch2@iuhealth.org
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