DVBAB FIND DUPS (2041)    REMOTE PROCEDURE (8994)

Find potential duplicates within the PATIENT File (#2)
 
At least one of NAM, DOB, or SSN must be passed
Possible matches are "better" when more than one of these is passed

• NAM
  PARAMETER TYPE:   LITERAL
  SEQUENCE NUMBER:   1
  DESCRIPTION:   

  Name of possible patient
  

• DOB
  PARAMETER TYPE:   LITERAL
  MAXIMUM DATA LENGTH:   7
  SEQUENCE NUMBER:   2
  DESCRIPTION:   

  Date of Birth of possible patient
  

• SSN
  PARAMETER TYPE:   LITERAL
  MAXIMUM DATA LENGTH:   10
  SEQUENCE NUMBER:   3
  DESCRIPTION:   

  Social Security Number of possible patient
  

BYREF - Passed by reference, will contain name of a TMP Global housing the results
Subscript L+1-M: Patient's matching ONLY 1 of NAM, DOB, SSN have a weighting of 1 (see Note)
 
^TMP(1-M) = DFN^ZERO_NODE
    where   DFN is the Patient IEN
            ZERO_NODE is the data from ^DPT(DFN,0)
 
NOTE: Potential matches within a weighting (if any) will be sorted by Patient Name
 
Subscript 0:  -1^ERROR_MESSAGE (in the event of an error)
 
   OR
 
Subscript    0:  Number of potential matches found (if no errors)
Subscript  1-K:  Patient's matching ALL 3 of NAM, DOB, SSN have a weighting of 3 (see Note)
Subscript K+1-L: Patient's matching ANY 2 of NAM, DOB, SSN have a weighting of 2 (see Note)