When a specimen is wholly processed, utilized, or destroyed, it can not be used further. Such samples can be marked as closed in OpenSpecimen to track that those specimens are no more available.

A closed specimen is a non-existing specimen whose record is still available but cannot be further processed or distributed.

Via UI

Close single specimen

Go to the ‘Overview’ page of the specimen for which you want to close it → click “More > Close.”

Open

Fill the details such as user, date, and time of closing the specimen and reason.

Open

Close multiple specimens

In many pages of OpenSpecimen, there is an 'Action' button using which multiple specimens can be closed at once. Refer to '