You can 'Close’ a specimen in OpenSpecimen when it is no longer available for further processing and is exhausted for any kind of future use.
Different ways to ‘close a specimen’:
- Close specimens during collection: this is a new feature in v6.1
- Close specimen from individual specimen page. You can enter a reason for closing or disposing the specimen.
- There is an action button on multiple pages like container, query results, visit overview, specimen list etc. You can close specimens from this actions menu as well.
When a participant withdraws consent you might have to dispose all the specimens for that participant. To achieve this:
- Go to Participant page
- Switch to Specimen tab
- Select all the specimens and select Actions→Close or Actions→Delete.
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What happens when a user closes a specimen?
- Once the specimen is closed, it can not be further used for distribution or processing.
- There is a disposal event logged on the specimen
- The specimen is indicated in red A red circle is displayed next to the specimen in all places
- To query for such specimens, users can search for 'Activity Status' as closed.