[Histonet] RE: Two identifiers...

Wed Aug 15 12:31:42 CDT 2012

I have worked many places that used barcodes/QR codes as an identifier. I have never heard of this being a problem, and actually seemed to be a well regarded method for the second identifier. Names can be the same, numbers can get transposed....I also thought this preferable since the patient name is not associated with the accession number wherever the slide may travel. The bar code should be "machine readable" with most readers since the symbologies are fairly standardized now. So you can always verify the information, and if you use the coding for work tracking, this is pretty standard I believe,  and far more accurate than most folks with numbers and names ( though still not perfect). 

Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC
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That I don't know as we have barcodes that the information is transferred from on the cassettes.  It contains all of the patient info plus block and date information.    Pam

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Can a bar code be counted as an identifier?

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We do the same as Pam with the patient name and case number

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"Marcum, Pamela A" <PAMarcum <@t> uams.edu> wrote:

>We use the specimen or accessioning number and the patient name as the two identifiers and that seems to meet the criteria.  We use the Thermo cassette writer and it transfers the information to the slides.
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>Pam Marcum
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>Hello all,
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>For those of you using cassette and slide labelers....
>Does your system permit you to print the accession number, patient name, and  DOB on the face of the cassette?  Are you using the specimen number and name as your two identifiers?
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