Potential Duplicates

Potential duplicates are two patient profiles that possibly represent the same patient. If you add a new patient and the master index application determines that the patient you are adding might already exist in the database, the two profiles are listed as potential duplicates of one another. Profiles are listed as potential duplicates if the probability of a match between the two profiles is above the duplicate threshold but below the match threshold. Because patient information is entered from various sources, a patient profile might have several potential duplicates. In this case, it is important to identify the potential duplicates and to determine whether the profiles represent the same patient.