How to handle Participants with Withdrawn Consent

For reporting purposes, the centers can choose to retain the participant information, in this case, you can dispose all the specimens so that it can not be further used for distribution or processing.

Dispose Specimen From Participant Page

1. Navigate to the Participant → Open Visit for which the specimens are collected.

2. Using the Checkbox(1), select all the specimens

3. Action(2)→ Close(3)

Open

Dispose Specimen From Query for Multiple Participants and Visits.

1. Create a basic query, and include all the PPIDs for all those that have withdrawn the consent.

2. From the Query Result Page, Click on the Select All(1) button → Specimens(2) → Close(3).

Open

If you need to delete a participant from OpenSpecimen, you can do so either through the user interface (UI) or by using the bulk import feature for participants in across protocols. For more detailed instructions, please click on the links below.

• Bulk Delete Participant via UI.

• Bulk Delete Participant using Bulk Import.