Wash U Distribution Work Flow

Amy BrinkWashington University School of Medicine

February 27, 2014

Specimen BankingO Specimens are banked in the LTP

Repository via two waysO A PI has IRB approved studyO LTP has a General Banking protocol

Specimen RequestO Investigators at Wash U use an external site

to place specimen requestO Investigator can specific specimens from a

study based in the time point and specimen type

O Investigator can request to have service performed on a banked specimen (extract DNA) and then distribute a portion of the specimen

O Investigator can make a general request based on research they want to do (IRB appoved) form specimens in the General Banking CP

Processing the RequestO After the request is placed in the

system and email is generated to notify that lab of the request

O Staff will print the request form O Example: PI would like 500ul of

serum from the baseline collection on patients 15520, 15478 and 16350 enrolled on Z1031_old CP

Processing the request

Search for parent

specimens

List is provided to technician

to pull specimen and create

500uL aliquot

Aliquots are created in

caTissue for the

specimens were

requested

Distribution Work FlowSpecimens added to My List• Search• Add to My List on Specimen detail

page

My List• Select Distribute• Submit

DistributionDistribution Protocol Distribution Site View ConsentStatus

Distribution Work Flow

Edit Report• Define

view• Add fields

Export • Format in

Excel

Notify PI• Call PI• Update

project