[Histonet] RE:second patient identifier

[Ronan, John]

Lori,

Working in a research lab, I do not know all the requirements concerning
a second patient identifier, but I can relate to a small lab without a
cassette printer.  Would it be possible to use sequentially pre-labeled
cassettes that you can purchase?  The cassettes I use have two fields,
the human read cassette number & the barcode version of the number.  In
my case, I have set up a database that will spit out study number,
animal number, group description ect. from the cassette number.  In your
case, the pathologist would read the cassette number into his/her
dictation and now the patient number, name, and all pertinent info
including a description of the content of the cassette can be linked to
the cassette number.  It actually eliminates the need to write on the
cassette at all.    


John Ronan
Research Associate
Laboratory Animal Resources
732 594-6378 
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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:54:27 -0500
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Subject: [Histonet] second patient identifier on tissue cassette
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How are you small hospitals dealing with a second patient identifier on
the tissue cassette if you do not have a cassette printer/labeler?  Is
there an easier way then hand writing patient name on cassette?

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Lori A. Vogt
Technical Section Head/ Histology
Lewistown Hospital
400 Highland Ave.
Lewistown, PA 17044
Phone-717-242-7213
Fax-717-242-7540
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