Flows/Update a consent

flowclinicalCARE 3.1+

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 change the status or the note of an existing consent in Care.

Pre-requisites

• A member of staff recorded the consent against an encounter of the patient.
• You open the encounter from the facility, and the encounter is active. Care hides the Edit button on a completed or cancelled encounter.
• You have the permission listed below.

Permissions

Permission	Access
Update Encounter related clinical data	Lets you change the clinical data of an encounter, which includes consents. Admin, Doctor, Nurse, and Facility Admin have this permission.

Steps

1. Open the consent

1. Open the encounter.
2. Select the Consents tab.
3. Select See Details on the consent that you want to change. Care opens the consent record.

2. Start the edit form

Select Edit. Care opens the Edit Consent form.

The form keeps the values that you gave when you recorded the consent. You can change these fields:

Components	What it captures
Status	The current state of the consent: Draft, Active, Inactive, Not Done, or Entered in Error.
Note	Free text about the consent.

The form does not show these fields. Care keeps the values that you gave at creation:

• Consent Decision
• Category
• Consent Given On
• Consent Valid From and Consent Valid Until

📝 Note

The edit form has no file upload. To attach one more file, use the Supporting Documents section of the consent record.

3. Change the status or the note

1. Select the new Status.
2. Enter or change the Note.

📝 Note

Care accepts a change from any status to any other status. Care does not ask you to confirm the change.

4. Save the consent

Select Save.

Expected Outcome

• Care shows the message "Consent updated successfully".
• Care refreshes the consent record and the Consents tab.
• The consent shows the new status and the new note.

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/Consent

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