Top is correct. The number matches to a document that has all the relevant info.
Yea but 2 keeps people from throwing it away during clean outs.
If you’re not there for the clean out then it’s time for them to go anyway.
Haha, I wish.
Could you use masking tape and label the tray?
And people say pointers are hard.
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YYMMDD-SITE-SAMPLE_ID
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Until you have more than 100 lab techs
But you can represent up to 999 lab techs with only 1 more digit. Or 946 lab techs with just 2 alpha numeric characters. Heck just 2 letters gets you 676 combinations. About 17,000 combos with 3 letters and more than 40,000 if you use 3 alphanumeric characters.
This is disturbing. I have had this debate so many times at my work.
I was dumb and thought I could outsmart my numbering system so I started doing FIFO for expired specimens.
dont do this, I am wrong.
I’m sure there is a secret, third kind, a labeless unruly dark force to rule them none.
1, a, 3 ?
(I just find it weird people write their 2s as ‘a’…)
