Flows/Mark a patient as deceased

flowclinicalCARE 3.0+

Clinical

Concepts

Patient

Encounter Care team Condition Allergy & Intolerance Observation Diagnostic Report Service Request Specimen Consent Clinical Notes

Questionnaire Response

Flows

Search for a patient

Register a patient View a patient's profile Update patient details Manage patient identifiers Manage patient tags Mark a patient as deceased Manage patient users View a patient's appointments and tokens Create an encounter Update encounter details Assign an encounter location Manage the encounter care team Manage encounter departments Manage encounter tags Discharge a patient Complete an encounter

Restart an encounter

References

Patient

Encounter Care team Condition Allergy Intolerance Observation Diagnostic Report Consent Notes Specimen Service Request

Questionnaire Response

Overview

This flow describes how to record that a patient is deceased. You record the status and the date and time of death from the patient's profile.

Pre-requisites

• The patient is registered in Care.
• You can open the patient's profile.
• You have the permission listed below.

Permissions

Permission	Access
Can Update a Patient's data	Lets you change the patient's details, and mark the patient as deceased.

Steps

1. Open the patient's profile

Open the profile of the patient. See View a patient's profile.

2. Edit the additional details

Find the Additional Details section. Select Edit.

3. Mark the patient as deceased

Select the Patient is deceased checkbox. Care shows a field for the date and time of death.

4. Enter the date and time of death

Enter the date and time of death.

📝 Note

The date and time of death must not be in the future.

📝 Note

The date and time of death must not be earlier than the patient's date of birth. If the patient has an age instead of a date of birth, Care compares the date of death with the birth year that it calculates from the age.

5. Save the change

Save the Additional Details section. See Update patient details.

Expected Outcome

• The patient's profile shows the deceased status as "Passed away on {date}, at {time}".

Clinical

Concepts

Patient · Encounter · Care team · Condition · Allergy · Observation · Dx Report · Service Request · Specimen · Consent · Notes · Q. Response

Flows

Search · Register · Profile · Update · Identifiers · Tags · Deceased · Users · Appointments · Create Encounter · Update Encounter · Location · Care Team · Departments · Tags · Discharge · Complete · Restart

References

Patient · Encounter · Care team · Condition · Allergy · Observation · Dx Report · Consent · Notes · Specimen · Service Request · Q. Response

Related

• Concept: Concepts/Patient
• Reference: References/Patient

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