Using Cognos2 to keep track of patients: Difference between revisions

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This process should also fill in the complete [[Minimal Data Set]].
This process should also fill in the complete [[Minimal Data Set]].


* Occasionally a patient will show up on the CSS with a service date that is well before the latest COGNOS data dump.  The most likely reason for this is that the patient was originally a John Doe and was given a MRN (usually beginning with 300 or 301 at HSC) that chart number is changed on discharge if the patient was identified and has a pre-existing MRN.  To resolve this, and to avoid the patient being entered twice, check with your fellow DC's and confirm that it has in fact been entered and then make a decision as to who will keep the profile.
* Occasionally a patient will show up on the CSS with a service date that is well before the latest COGNOS data dump.  The most likely reason for this is that the patient was originally a John Doe and was given a MRN (usually beginning with 300 or 301 at HSC) that chart number is changed on discharge if the patient was identified and has a pre-existing MRN.  To resolve this, and to avoid the patient being entered twice, check with your fellow DC's and confirm that it has in fact been entered and then make a decision as to who will keep the profile. See [[John or Jane Doe patient]] for further instructions.


=== Finding new unit arrivals ===
=== Finding new unit arrivals ===