Phone Objects

Phone objects store a patient’s telephone numbers in a system record or SBR. Each telephone number is identified by a phone type. Each system record or SBR can store multiple telephone numbers, but can only store one number of each type. For example, a record can have a home and a cellular telephone number, but cannot have two home telephone numbers. By default, the survivor calculator determines which system record telephone numbers to store in the SBR by looking at all system record numbers. If each phone type is unique, then all telephone numbers are included in the SBR. If there are multiple telephone numbers of one type, the survivor calculator determines which number to store in the SBR.