Patients

The basic information unit is the patient. Before creating any analytical request, the corresponding patient record must exist. This will survive the livespan of the request, and will contain all their history.

Create

This form is divided into steps. The step the user is on is marked by the number of the step turning orange.

Once the step is filled with the required information, the circle marking the step will stay orange and the number in said circle will change into a check mark (✓)

1. Basic information of the patient → The first step involves the obligatory entry of the name, last name and gender of the patient, as indicated by the asterisk, . Further information is optional. To continue to the next step, the user must press the next button found at the bottom right of the form.
2. Birth information → To complete this step, only the birthdate is required. To input this information, the user has two options. They can fill in the information with the format given, or they can click on the little calendar icon, , and select the correct date. Once this information is filled in, the box next to it will automatically be filled with the patient's current age.
3. Contact information → One phone number must be assigned to a patient for further contact.
4. Residency information → This step has no required fields, but it contains a checkbox at the bottom, Add provenance region?. This option is for when a patient, although local, has come from outside the country. When the box is ticked, two more boxes appear on the forms, Provenance region and Provenance city.
5. Extra information → This step has no required fields. The Reserved 1, 2 and 3 are boxes whose names can be modified through the System administration if the laboratory requires any specific information from the patients.
6. Requests → This actually not a step in the creation or update of the patient, but just a read-only tab containing all the requests of the patient.

The next button cannot be used if any of the required fields are not filled in. In every step, apart from step 1, there is a Previous button for the user to be able to navigate back and forth between steps and alter the information they contain.

Search

Table found in the Search function of the system

Name	Phone	Health Facility ID	Creation Date	Last Modification Date	Patient details	Edit Patient
The first column shows the patient's name	The patient's contact number is listed in this column	Here, their identification number for the hospital where they are treated can be found	This column informs the user about when the patient's information was first inputted into the system	The last time the patient's information was altered in the system is shown here	This column displays the following icon, . When the button is clicked, a screen will appear with the age, gender, phone and ID of the patient as well as tabs with the information on the patient's documentation information, birth information, contact information, residency information, extra information and requests. From this page, the user can also edit the patient through the edit patient button at the bottom left of the page. To return to the search patients page, there is a Return button at the top left of the screen	This column displays the following icon, File:Editpatient.PNG. This button allows the user to edit a patient through a page similar to the create patients page. The main differences are found at the bottom of the page, where there is a cancel editing button on the left and a save changes button on the right

Arrows appear next to each heading in the table when the mouse is hovered over them to manipulate the order the information is showed in for each heading.

Duplicate Detection

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The e-mail address, as well as the Identifier document number identify a patient. Besides this, a consecutive internal identifier is automatically generated by the system. Moreover, patients of similar name, age and telephone number are detected as potential duplicates at creation time. On happening, a warning is displayed, and the laboratory technician can either modify the corresponding data or move ahead with the creation.