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The patient name and the ID are matched against the patterns you configure. The patterns make use of wildcards as per the following table, and are case insensitive:
Pattern | Meaning |
---|---|
* | matches everything |
? | matches any single character |
[seq] | matches any character in seq |
[!seq] | matches any character not in seq |
To match all studies where the patient name begins with physics
, the pattern should be set to
physics*
. This would match Physics^RoutIQ
but not match Testing^Physics
because there was no wildcard at the start of the pattern. The patient name in DICOM is normally formatted
Family name^Given name^Middle name^Prefix^Suffix
. Therefore to match any studies where the first name
is Test
, you would set the pattern to be *^test*
(although this would also match a
middle name, prefix or suffix equal to test
if they were present!
If your test patient name always starts with PHY
and then a number, you might use this pattern:
phy[0-9]*
. Here we have used a range for the sequence to match any number, but it will only match one
character per sequence, so a *
is required to match all the characters after the first number. This
pattern will match Phy12345
and PHY6test
but not Phyliss
.
OpenREM releases before 0.8 had the not-patient identification patterns hard-coded. From release 0.8.0 the patterns are (admin) user configurable, but will start with no patterns in place.
{% if admin.admingroup %}To add the patterns that would maintain the behaviour of previous releases,