Possible Duplicate Patients
Every patient whose name matches another record together with the date of birth or an email or phone. Open both to compare. Different people: choose Not a duplicate and say why (or say why when saving with Create anyway), and the pair leaves this list.
Where to find it
Address in the console: /ehr/patient-duplicates
Read-only list · 7 columns · 3 actions
This list is read-only: its records are written by the work that produces them. A correction, where one is possible at all, is made where the record was created.
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Medical record number | Code | mrn |
| First name | Text | first_name |
| Last name | Text | last_name |
| Date of birth | Date | date_of_birth |
| Text | email | |
| Looks like patient | Code | same_as |
| Possible matches | Number | matches |
What you can do here
Not a duplicate primary
Record that this patient is a different person from the one it looks like
Asks for: Why these are different people*
Open this patient
Open the patient it looks like
* required
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.