Where should be these Specimen Related Fields?

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For some cases, some vendor software requires data about cassettes/block ID, slides (ex. Slide ID) and corresponding staining (Staining name, Staining protocol number ) for anatomic pathology specimens. Any idea where these fields could fit?

So for example, if there is a certain specimen as a resource and it has a certain identified container, and the specimen should be divided into cassettes and cassettes should be divided into slides. Where this data about cassettes and slides should be?

Note: In HL7v2, I used to fill custom filler and placer fields to do this.

Thanks,

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Specimens can be derived from other specimens. This linkage is captured in Specimen.parent. So the cassettes and slides will all be Specimen instances (with containers). If you’re wanting to define a request to split the Specimen into pieces, then you’d be looking at Task or possibly Procedure.

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