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Mark an allergy as entered in error

This flow describes how to retract an allergy that somebody recorded by mistake. Pre-requisites - The patient has a saved allergy. - The patient has an open encounter at the facility, and you retract the allergy from that encounter. - The…

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Overview

This flow describes how to retract an allergy that somebody recorded by mistake.

Pre-requisites

Permissions

Permission Access
Can submit questionnaire about patient encounters Lets you submit the allergy screen of the encounter.
Update Encounter related clinical data Lets you retract an allergy of the encounter.
Can view clinical data about patients Lets you see the allergies of the patient.

Steps

1. Open the allergy screen

Open the encounter. Go to the Overview tab. Find the Allergies section. Select the edit (pencil) icon.

You can also press the keyboard shortcut a on any encounter screen.

2. Find the allergy

Find the row of the allergy in the table.

3. Mark the allergy as entered in error

Open the more-options (⋮) menu of the row. Select Remove Allergy.

You can also set the Status of the row to Entered in Error.

Note: For a saved allergy, Remove Allergy sets the Status to Entered in Error. For a new row that you did not submit, Remove Allergy deletes the row.

4. Submit

Select Submit.

Expected Outcome

Note: MANSOQ has no separate delete action for an allergy. Entered in Error is the only way to retract one.

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Source evidence

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