Biographic changes over time

Also see Patients residing in Manitoba with ambiguous MH Health coverage.

We try to connect the data of patients for whom we have Multiple Encounters. Sometimes part of the demographic information of these patients changes over time; in some cases we leave the info alone, in others we change it to either the first encounter's value or the most recent encounter's value. Here are links to where we document these processes. We are not including what we actually do on this page so it does not become inconsistent with the actual definitions over time.

• LastName_field#Name changes over time
• FirstName_field#Name changes over time
• Sex field#Sex changes over time
• PHIN field#Multiple PHINs or PHIN changes over time

Data Integrity Checks

Some of our Data Integrity Checks will trigger due to the decisions we have made around these. See the "Data Integrity Checks (automatic list)" sections of the relevant field for the checks that affect the fields.

Our Data Processor creates an entry in L_Problem_table to suppress the false positives, which serves as an explanation and record of vetting of these for future reference.