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Bika Lab Systems -  web based open source LIMS     v2.0, 17 October 2006, lemoene

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Samples

Chemical Analysis
     Requests
     Templates
     Job Cards
     Quotes

Analysis Specifications

Micro-Bio Analysis
     Requests
     Job Cards
Hygiene Surveys
     
Templates
Visual Inspections
Staff Surveys
Cultures and Antibiograms

Orders

MicroB, Order and other Quotes

Invoices

Price Lists

Reports

 

Hygiene Survey Requests

Hygiene surveys in the wire frame model, click here

Purpose

A hygiene survey sees a lab technician visiting a client site and sampling a  number of ‘Surfaces’ for analysis back at the lab

99% of Surveys always include a Visual inspection and scoring of the site at certain areas. These scores, ‘Visuals’, are handled per Inspection request for the sake of modularity and the rare future instance where only a visual inspection might be requested

A Hygiene survey can thus be seen as having two parts, surfaces and visuals and this relationship is maintained for workflow, reporting and invoicing purposes

As for ARs, clients may request hygiene surveys remotely and may compile the sites to be surveyed themselves. Alternatively labclerks may do it for them

They do so using an existing survey template or build it from scratch

On the date of the survey, the labtechnician prints the SR, and uses it on-site – she takes samples at the prescribed places and captures any data required, ie visual scores for the associated , onto the printed SR. The latter functionality can in the future be automated thru the use of PDAs

Back at the lab, analysis and inspection results are captured into the system.

Like ARs, SRs go through verification and publication status changes executed by the labmanager

Individual surface samples and their analyses are treated as ARs, maybe with different prefix and never shown as such, and its underlying functionality used for analysis retraction/publication workflow, logs etc

Re-testing of suspect values

At times analyses maybe repeated to confirm suspicious results. These are then marked ‘confirmed/retested’ on the survey

Hygiene efficiency ratings….

also shown in lists 

bottom of all pages

only shows associated surveys' lines if available

Survey statuses

Due, Sampled, To be verified, Verified, Published

Use case -  Creating, maintaining and eventually publishing a survey

Role players - client, labclerk, labtechnician, labmanager

the role player navigates to the client’s ‘Surveys’ page

she clicks [add new]

the same client status checks and workflows are carried out as specified for ARs

SR header properties are put together exactly like for ARs, see the corresponding page in the wire frame model

any existing SR can be saved as survey template (ST) for future use

for the SR to be created from an existing ST, the plant for the survey must be provided since the template contains the survey surfaces areas per site

created from and ST, the SR will have many fields completed, but the role player may edit, add or delete some of the information

if there will be a visual inspection assessment to be done during the survey as well, the role player selects that option

she’ll then be led through a workflow to also create a visual inspection request (IR) as describe elsewhere. in this work flow the system creates a new inspection request with the client and header properties shared with the survey request inherited as defaults

she saves the SR

like for ARs a notification of the pending survey is posted to lab staff: clerks, technicians and managers

the role player to execute the survey, prints it and any associated IRs, and sets off to the plant/farm

she captures data available on-site firstly on paper

and when back at the lab, into the LIMS

as analysis results become available in the lab, it is captured on the SR and submitted for verification

the system calculates averages, ratings and interpretations as stipulated for the individual analyses in their set-ups (like fir MicroB ARs)

Role players enter any ad hoc remarks as required

the labmanager retracts, or verifies and publishes the results

once verified, clients see results data

in publication, the results are e-mailed/faxed  to the requestor and her recipient list

the publication includes:

survey ID

client address & contact details

cc list

sampled by. selected from labtechnicians at creation

order no

the responsible manager

the responsible microbiologist (automatically logged)

date requested (automatically logged)

date/time sampled

date/time survey started (automatically logged)

date/time survey completed (automatically logged)

date/time published (automatically logged)

averaged scores

visuals inspection (IR) link

insertion blobs, ie  interpretation tables

Prices and  Price summary, incl. travel costs, travel costs, survey charges