As an LIS developer, I struggle with how to deal with reporting data we know
to be incorrect in a way that maintains the record but prevents someone from
accidentally acting on it if they review the report in haste.
In this example, I am curious as to how to deal with the idea that we
I'm wondering how other muscle histochem labs handle their workflow. Because
the histochem stains require frozen sections and a freshly-prepared reagents,
and muscle conditions are not usually very time sensitive, we batch all our
cutting and staining to one batch per week. We have 5-10 cases a
The report must be amended, not deleted. The amended reason should state the
reason for the amendment, and the correction. "This report is amended to
correct the patient data to the correct patient"
All electronic reports that are downstream must show that correction.
You can never just delete
