Class: SpecimenStorageActivity

An activity in which a specimen is stored or maintained in a particular location, container, or state. Unlike 'processing' activities, storage does not alter the intrinsic physical nature of a specimen.

URI: crdch:SpecimenStorageActivity

Parents

• is_a: Entity - Any resource that has its own identifier

Referenced by Class

• Specimen ➞storage_activity _0..* SpecimenStorageActivity

Attributes

Own

• date_started _0..1
  • Description: The date when the activity began (in this case, a storage event).
  • Range: TimePoint
• date_ended _0..1
  • Description: The date when the activity ended (in this case, a storage event).
  • Range: TimePoint
• duration _0..1
  • Description: The length of time over which the activity was performed.
  • Range: Quantity
• performed_by _0..1
  • Description: The organization or group that performed the activity.
  • Range: Organization
• method_type _0..1
  • Description: A specific type of method or procedure performed to store the specimen
  • Range: CodeableConcept
  • Examples: ambient temperature, cut slide, fresh, frozen at -70C, frozen at -150C, frozen in liquid nitrogen, frozen in vapor phase, paraffin block, RNAlater at 4C
• container _0..*
  • Description: A container in which the specimen is held or affixed during its storage.
  • Range: SpecimenContainer

Other properties

Comments:		Think of the StorageActivity as being one of many possible periods when the specimen was stored at some location and in some state or condition. We may want to capture storage dates and conditions for each.