Execute Pending Patient Updates

If any studies are using partial source data verification with a Patient SDV Plan, an administrator must set up a recurring job to check for newly eligible patients available for patient SDV automatic selection. The recurring job is set up under the Admin menu, DE Admin, then Schedule Pending Patient Updates Job. See Scheduling a Job to Manage Patient Updates. The job runs on all studies that use partial source data verification, not just the current study.

You can run the same job on an immediate basis from the Conduct menu, Security, and then Execute Pending Patient Updates. Click Submit.

The job also resolves conflicting locking situations that can arise due to simultaneous requests to update the Patient Positions table. These can have the following effects:

• When a user makes updates in the Maintain Patient Positions window, he or she may receive an error message saying that updates are pending for one or more patients in the study and to try again later. Running this job commits the updates and makes it possible to work in the Maintain Patient Positions window again.
• When the OCL_UTILS package attempts to update a locked patient record, the update is written to the patient_positions_deferred table to be processed the next time the Pending Patient Updates job is executed.