Overview
When samples are stored off site there may be a need to retain that information in StudyTRAX. A unique barcode ID is created for each sample and that ID is linked from StudyTRAX to the off-site sample.
Summary of Match with StudyTRAX
StudyTRAX does not a have formal Tissue Banking component. Instead, sample tracking is managed in a similar fashion as all other clinical data. This works well in some cases and not in others. In sum, you can create forms to capture any desired tissue sample characteristics and link the form to an externally generated ID (i.e., using pre-bar coded labels). The main limitations are StudyTRAX does NOT automatically generate a sample ID and the bar code ID field is not indexed (making frequent sample look-up inpartical).
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