Patients

Menu: [patients]

Create patients to store phenotype information and link multiple samples (eg tumor/normal) together.

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You can search by name, code or free text in the phenotype description.

Click the graph of phenotype terms to filter the grid to patients with that phenotype.

Patients grid filtered to microcephaly

Patient records

Import a CSV to create patients in bulk. Click the patient record imports link at the top of the page, then can select to download an example CSV with your samples pre-filled, so it’s easy to match your patients to your existing data.

You can also create patients one at time via a form, by clicking the Create New Patient link just above the grid.

Other sources of patients

Patients can be created via the patholoy test ordering system.

On a private server (eg diagnostic lab intranet), patient records can be automatically created via your LIMS/Patient records system (speak to your administrator)

Other

Family Code is useful for linking together patients

The system can be configured to show/hide names, or convert birthdates to years depending on your privacy needs.