Follow each tissue case through the bench, and each culture from set-up to its antibiotic sensitivity report.
Histopathology and microbiology in the same system as the rest of the lab. Follow each tissue case through the bench, and each culture from set-up to its sensitivity report.
Pathologists, who sign out reports. Histopathology and microbiology technicians, who work the bench. Doctors, who prescribe from the sensitivity report.
A biopsy takes days, and nobody can tell the doctor where the case actually is.
The antibiotic report is handwritten and hard to read.
The early report the doctor acted on is lost when the final report comes.
A report can go out without a diagnosis written on it.
Receive histopathology, cytology and frozen section specimens. Each gets its own number, with priority (routine or urgent) and clinical history.
See where each case is: received, grossing, processing, embedding, sectioning, staining, pathologist review, reported or amended. Days on the bench are shown.
Draft a frozen-section call, then the final report. Each is its own document, and neither is erased later.
A pathologist signs out the report. A report with no diagnosis is refused. Changes are made as a new amended version.
Set up a culture, record no growth, or add an isolate with the organism and colony count.
Record R / I / S for each antibiotic. The panel shows on the culture list, so a resistant organism is seen at once. Preliminary, final and amended reports stay separate.
A draft report is shown in amber and is not visible to doctors. Only a released report reaches the chart, and an amendment is added as a new version, so the earlier report can still be read.
Every module works on the same patients, admissions and beds. Nothing is typed twice. See the related modules:
Yes. Each case shows its bench stage, from received to reported, and how many days it has been on the bench.
Yes. Preliminary, final and amended reports are separate documents. A doctor can still read the preliminary report they acted on.
For each isolate, the technician records the antibiotics tested and marks each as R, I or S. The result shows on the culture list.