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Single-step Specimen Collection process

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1. If you chose ‘Proceed to Collection’ from the ‘Add Participant’ page, proceed to step 3.

2. If a participant already exists, navigate to the participant’s overview page. There will be one or two tables displayed: ‘Occurred Visits’ (if any previous visits exist) and ‘Pending Visits’. From the ‘Pending Visits’ table, select the down-arrow next to ‘Collect’ and select, ‘Specimens’.

    

   

3. The Specimen Collection page is displayed for the visit. There are two sections:

   1. The upper section displays visit level fields (red)

   2. The lower table displays the expected specimens at that visit (blue)

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4. Default visit fields can be edited as needed, default settings are as follows:

   1. Visit Date will default to the current date.

   2. Visit Site is usually set in the protocol.

   3. Collector and Receiver will default to current user.

   4. Quality defaults to ‘acceptable’. Note that this value will apply to all specimens collected. If a single specimen has a quality issue, you will need to navigate to that sample and change the quality description.

      

5. Collection and Received dates typically need be specified, set time if necessary.

   

6. Planned Specimen table: record any necessary data that differs from expected.

   

   1. Quantity: editable if volume or other quantity unit is different than programmed value

   2. Container: choose any manually selected containers to store primary samples (detailed description is covered in ‘Containers’ section.

   3. Label printing should be pre-programmed but can be manually selected

   4. Status defaults to collected, but can be set as otherwise if a sample was not collected.

      

7. Example: Final Specimen Collection page following data entry and editing:

   1. Entered collection & received dates,

   2. Edit volume of total blood for plasma and PBMCs,

   3. Selected container to store PAXgene tube,

   4. Selected manual printing of label for PAXgene tube

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8. Click ‘Submit’ to collect samples as described.

9. System navigates back to the Participant overview page and the summary of the visit collected will appear in the ‘Occurred Visits’ table and will disappear from the ‘Pending Visits’ table.

   

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