To remove a specimen from a patient record:

Open the Medical Event Detail window for the medical event in question. See Viewing/Editing a Patient Record for instructions on how to do this.

Select the Details tab on that window.

Click on the specimen that you want to remove in the Specimens grid on that tab. The selected row will be highlighted in yellow.

Click on the — button above the grid. A dialog will open asking you if you want to remove the specimen from the patient record as well.

If you want to delete the specimen from the patient record entirely, click Yes. If you just want to remove the association between the specimen and the medical event and want the specimen to continue to appear as part of the patient record, click No. Just remove from Medical Event. The dialog will close and the selected specimen record will be removed from the Specimens grid on the Medical Event Detail window.

If you change your mind and do not want to remove the specimen from the medical event record at all, click on the X (close) button in the upper right corner of the dialog and the dialog will close without any changes occurring in the database.

If you clicked Yes in step 5, the specimen will also be removed from the Specimens grid on the Labs tab of the patient detail window for the patient with whom the medical event is associated. If the selected specimen is linked to an itBioPath record and you have chosen to also remove the specimen from the patient record, this link will be broken.