RE: specimen numbering
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From: | "Weems, Joyce" <JWEEMS@sjha.org> (by way of histonet) |
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We do too - without the hyphen. We have, among others, the following
prefixes - MOO, BOO, POO, GOO, SOO, & COO. We are having a few good laughs!
Joyce Weems
Pathology Manager
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta
-----Original Message-----
From: Kopczynski, Charlotte
[SMTP:Charlotte.Kopczynski@baycare.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 10:49 AM
To: 'Roberta Horner'; Histonet
Subject: RE: specimen numbering
can you start with a prefix letter perhaps. I have the Cerner
computer
system and our accession number begin with S-00- Look kinda weird
but
works...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roberta Horner [SMTP:rjr6@psu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 10:29 AM
> To: Histonet
> Subject: specimen numbering
>
> The lab here has created what I consider a serious problem and I
would
> like
> to know if others out there confronted and solved it.
>
> Our numbering system is the last two digits of the year and a 5
digit
> number. The computer will not accept a number starting with 00,
so our
> computer committee in their wisdom decided to us the first and
last digit
> for the beginning of the accession number i.e. 20. The problem
comes in
> twenty years when we will again be using 20 as the first digits.
No one
> else seems to care that in twenty years I am going to have two
sets of
> blocks and slides with the same number hence the problem I no
longer have
> unique numbers.
>
> Does any one else's lab have this problem and what are you doing
about it?
> Any and all suggestions are welcome. I may or may not be here at
that
> time
> but I really don't want to leave problems for someone else.
>
> Thanks very much
> Roberta Horner HT
> Animal Diagnostic Lab
> Penn State University
>
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