Flows/Discard a specimen

flowclinicalCARE 3.1+

Clinical

Concepts

Patient

Encounter Care team Condition Allergy & Intolerance Observation Diagnostic Report Service Request Specimen Consent Clinical Notes

Questionnaire Response

Flows

Search for a patient

Register a patient View a patient's profile Update patient details Manage patient identifiers Manage patient tags Mark a patient as deceased Manage patient users View a patient's appointments and tokens Create an encounter Update encounter details Assign an encounter location Manage the encounter care team Manage encounter departments Manage encounter tags Discharge a patient Complete an encounter

Restart an encounter

References

Patient

Encounter Care team Condition Allergy Intolerance Observation Diagnostic Report Consent Notes Specimen Service Request

Questionnaire Response

Overview

This flow describes how to discard a specimen in Care and record the reason for the discard.

Pre-requisites

• You collected the specimen, and the specimen card shows on the service request page.
• You have the permissions listed below.

Permissions

Permission	Access
Can Create Specimen on Facility	Lets you discard a specimen at the facility. Facility Admin, Admin, Doctor, and Nurse have this permission.

Steps

1. Open the specimen card menu

Go to the service request page. Find the card of the specimen that you discard. Open the menu on the specimen card.

2. Select Discard

Select Discard in the menu. Care opens a confirmation dialog. The dialog asks for the reason for the discard.

3. Select the reason and confirm

Select one of these reasons:

Reason	What it records
Unavailable	The specimen is not available.
Unsatisfactory	The specimen does not meet the quality requirements.
Entered in Error	A user created the specimen by mistake.

Confirm the dialog. Care sets the status of the specimen to the reason that you select.

📝 Note

The three reason labels in this dialog show in English only. The current build does not translate them to other languages.

📝 Note

A discard is final. A discarded specimen does not return to the Available status.

Expected Outcome

• Care shows the specimen with the status that matches the reason that you select.
• The specimen stays discarded, and you cannot return it to the Available status.

Clinical

Concepts

Patient · Encounter · Care team · Condition · Allergy · Observation · Dx Report · Service Request · Specimen · Consent · Notes · Q. Response

Flows

Search · Register · Profile · Update · Identifiers · Tags · Deceased · Users · Appointments · Create Encounter · Update Encounter · Location · Care Team · Departments · Tags · Discharge · Complete · Restart

References

Patient · Encounter · Care team · Condition · Allergy · Observation · Dx Report · Consent · Notes · Specimen · Service Request · Q. Response

Related

• Concept: Concepts/Specimen

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