Pooling is the process of merging one or more specimens of the same patient or multiple patients into a single specimen. The pooled specimen can be stored or used for testing and processing.
Highlights:
Specimens from multiple participants and visits within one CP can be pooled.
Specimens can be pooled even if the specimen types and lineage are different.
The pooled specimen has to be linked to a participant and visit.
When pooling across multiple participants, you can assign one of the participants. Or you can create a dummy participant to store all the pooled specimens.
The pooled specimen is highlighted with a ‘Pink’ color and tagged as ‘Pooled’.
The specimens used in pooling are marked as closed.
Not supported:
Defining pooled specimens in CP’s Specimen Requirements is not supported.
You cannot pool specimens from two different CPs.
The 'Pool' option can be seen under the following pages:
Carts → Actions
Containers → Actions
Specimen list view → Actions
Query results view → Specimen
Specimen Tree view
Visit overview → Add Specimen
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Pooled specimens are highlighted in pink color. Also, a tag is displayed at the top.
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The used specimens are marked as 'Closed'.
On the specimen overview, a section is added as 'Pooled Into':
You can query based on pooled specimen type, specimen barcode, labels, user, date & time:
Refer to the 'Pool Specimens Task' example to include the pool specimens task in your workflows.