RE: specimen numbering
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From: | "Kopczynski, Charlotte" <Charlotte.Kopczynski@baycare.org> (by way of histonet) |
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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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