On 3-Feb-08, at 2:18 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
The biggest problem to matching is usually variants of the first or middle names or exchanges between them e.g. Smith, Ann Marie Smith, Annie M Smith, Marie Smith, A Mary can be different forms of the same person.Sure, but there's no way to avoid that. But they will all provide very good candidate matches from which a user can easily select the proper patient.
When a user accepts a lab-variant name as belonging to a patient, maybe it is worth to add that alias to a patient's names, that would save this step having to be done again the next time that a patient goes back to that same lab.
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