Just some idle curiosity about a light-hearted topic. I've trained exclusively one way and the other is totally abhorrent to me when I get outside cases like this.
as i recall we had 2 letters first. #1 was location (we had one big histo lab processing for ~15 locations), #2 was type of specimen( inpatient,outpatient,derm,) followed by the accession sequence followed by the year.
BI-4444-98 is from Bad hospital, inpatient, 4,444th case of 1998.
If this isn’t exactly right folks, remember i’m the “old guy” on the board retired 9 yrs
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