Specimen Collection is used when a set of laboratory or pathology observations produced on one or more specimens need to be associated with the minimal characteristics of the specimen(s): specimen source site and type of specimen.
In addition this template enables to convey when the specimen was collected.
In a patient summary there is no need to provide more data than these 4:
- collection method,
- source site,
- type of specimen and
- time of collection.
An occurrence of this template describes one specimen collected, used by the set of observations present in the same Result Organizer.