Gold Standardization
High Quality Results for your Patients Available Now
Mission
Abbott Diagnostics’ mission for the Gold Standardization program is to help you deliver high quality results for your patients. Calibration to internationally recognized standards and reference methods ensures optimal patient diagnosis and therapy monitoring on your ARCHITECT®, AxSYM®, IMx® and TDx® assays.
Communication
Abbott is committed to proactively providing you detailed information regarding each Gold Standardization project prior to implementation to smoothly facilitate integration into your laboratory. Additionally, our medical teams will assess the impact of each Gold Standardization project on quality controls and patient results and communicate this information to you.
You will now receive Gold Standardization information through...
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Website
- Unique URL: www.abbottdiagnostics.com/goldstandardization
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Technical Communications*
Product specific information including patient impact, control value assignment, required actions and contact information.
Now available in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian. More languages will be available soon.
- Gold Standardization Summary
- Upcoming Gold Standardizations (short-term)
- Planned Gold Standardizations (long-term)
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Alert Stickers*
- Placed on the box lid of reagents, calibrators and controls that require pairing
- Directing you to specific assay information
* For assays requiring pairing due to the Gold Standardization process.
Pairing: Assay components (Reagents, Calibrators, Controls) manufactured using the new standards not interchangeable with assay components manufactured using the previous standards.
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