[Histonet] Patient identifiers

[Walter Benton]

Full name and date of birth.

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From: Cartun, Richard via Histonet [mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 10:19 AM
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Subject: [Histonet] Patient identifiers

What are people accepting for the "two" identifiers on the small formalin bottles that are used for prostate biopsy specimens?  Can you accept the patient's initials in place of the full name?  Thank you.

Richard

Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic Proteomics Laboratory Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology Hartford Hospital
80 Seymour Street
Hartford, CT  06102
(860) 972-1596
(860) 545-2204 Fax


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