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Advanced Search criteria


When finding studies using Advanced Search, finding teaching files, or creating worklists, you can choose from the following criteria.

Criteria Conditions Expected values Applies to

Accession Number

Starts with

Ends with

Type all or part of the accession number.

Note: This is case-sensitive for AS3000 servers.

Studies

Body Part

Is

Is not

Select the part of the body where the study was taken.

Studies

Teaching Files

Branch of Service

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select the branch of service or select ... to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the branch of service and click OK.

Studies

Conflicts

Yes

No

Select if you want to search for studies with conflicts. This criterion does not work with the priority grouping rules functionality.

Note: Selecting No performs a unconstrained search; therefore, ensure you select additional search criteria.

Studies

Current Patient Location

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select the current location of the patient or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the current patient location and click OK.

Studies

Teaching Files

Department

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select the department where the study was performed or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the department and click OK.

Studies

Department Visit Number

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of the department visit number, which locates studies based on the number of times the patient has visited the department, including the time of the current study.

Studies

Global Patient ID

Is

Starts with

Ends with

Type all or part of the Global Patient ID. A patient can have multiple patient IDs across different information systems in the enterprise. The Global Patient ID links these multiple IDs by providing an identifier that does not change for the patient and is never used by other patients.

Studies

HIS/RIS Verified

Is

Is not

Select one of the following:

Failed Verification—Verification was required, but the study failed verification.

Never Verified—No verification was required for the study, so none was done. (Studies enter this state if the RIS at the site cannot verify incoming studies.)

Verified—Verification was required and the study passed.

Studies

Institution

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Select the name of the institution where the study was performed or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Favorites dialog. From the list, select the institution and click OK.

Studies

Item Name

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of the name of the teaching file folder or the teaching file. If you type the name of a teaching file folder, the search results includes both folders and teaching files.

Teaching Files

Key Image Title

Is

Is not

From the list, type or select a Key Image document title that the key images are organized under.

Studies

Keywords

Is

Is not

Is Empty

Contains

Does not Contain

From the list, type or select a keyword that has been associated with the study.

Studies

Modality

Is

Is not

Contains

Does not Contain

Select a modality from the list. (The ability to view certain studies from certain modalities is controlled by license, permissions, and server configuration.)

In multiple IMPAX cluster configurations, where the IMPAX Data Center serves as the central archive, do not use Modality as search criteria.

Studies

Teaching Files

Operator

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of the name of the operator who performed the study.

Studies

Other Patient IDs

Is

Starts with

Ends with

Type all or part of an alternative patient ID.

Studies

Patient Age at Acquisition

Any age

Age Is

At Most

At Least

Age Between

Enter the patient's age when the study was acquired in days, weeks, months, or years. For Age Between, you must enter an age range.

Studies

Teaching Files

Patient Birth Date

Any Date

Date is

Age Is

At Most

At Least

Age Between

Date Between

Type a date or select it from the calendar to search within or select Any Date. Text highlighted in red indicates an invalid date format.

Note that if you select Any Date, you must also select another criteria to search on. Unconstrained searches are not allowed.

Studies

Patient ID

Is

Starts with

Ends with

Type part of the patient ID. For the best results, use Ends with, and type the last few numbers of the patient ID or medical record number.

Studies

Patient Location

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Select the patient's location when the study was acquired or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Favorites dialog. From the list, select the study patient location and click OK.

Studies

Patient Name

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of the patient's name.

Studies

Patient Name

(Ideographic) *

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of an East Asian patient name using ideographic characters.

Studies

Patient Name

(Phonetic) *

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of an East Asian patient name using phonetic characters.

Studies

Patient Name

(Single Byte) *

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of an East Asian patient name using single-byte characters.

Studies

Patient Sex

Is

Is not

Male Female Other

Studies

Performing Physician

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select all or part of the performing physician's name or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the performing physician and click OK.

To allow the logged in user to view studies they are the performing physician for, select Current User.

Studies

Performing Physician

(Ideographic) *

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of a performing physician's East Asian name using ideographic characters or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the performing physician and click OK.

Studies

Performing Physician

(Phonetic) *

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of a performing physician's East Asian name using phonetic characters or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the performing physician and click OK.

Studies

Performing Physician

(Single Byte) *

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of a performing physician's East Asian name using single-byte characters or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the performing physician and click OK.

Studies

Priority

Is

Is not

Select the priority from the list. The Priority ID is assigned at the RIS. Typically, the ID is assigned when the study order is generated. Depending on the type of RIS your site uses, the values in this list may be High, Low, Null, or some other similar values.

Studies

Radiologist

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select all or part of a the name of the radiologist who dictated the study or select ... to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the radiologist and click OK.

Studies

Rank

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select a value for the military rank or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the rank and click OK.

Studies

Reason for Study

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of the reason for the study.

Teaching Files

Referring Physician

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select all or part of the referring physician's name or select ... to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the referring physician and click OK.

To allow the logged in user to view studies they are the referring physician for, select Current User.

Studies

Referring Physician

(Ideographic) *

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select all or part of referring physician's East Asian name using ideographic characters or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the referring physician and click OK. Studies

Referring Physician

(Phonetic) *

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select all or part of a referring physician's East Asian name using phonetic characters or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the referring physician and click OK. Studies

Referring Physician

(Single Byte) *

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select all or part of a referring physician's East Asian name using single-byte characters or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the referring physician and click OK. Studies
Requested Procedure

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of the requested procedure text. Studies
Requested Procedure ID

Is

Starts with

Ends with

Type all or part of the requested procedure ID. Studies
Requesting Physician

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select all or part of the requesting physician's name or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the requesting physician and click OK.

To allow the logged in user to view studies they are the requesting physician for, select Current User.

Studies

Requesting Physician

(Ideographic) *

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select all or part of a requesting physician's East Asian name using ideographic characters or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the requesting physician and click OK. Studies

Requesting Physician

(Phonetic) *

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select all or part of a requesting physician's East Asian name using phonetic characters or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the requesting physician and click OK. Studies

Requesting Physician

(Single Byte) *

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select all or part of a requesting physician's East Asian name using single-byte characters or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Select Search Favorites dialog. From the list, select the requesting physician and click OK. Studies
Requesting Service

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of the name of the department that requested the study. Studies
Scheduled Procedure Step ID

Is

Starts with

Ends with

Type all or part of the scheduled procedure step ID. Studies
Speciality

Is

Is not

Select a specialty from the list, such as Head, Chest, Body, Neuro, and so on.

In multiple IMPAX cluster configurations, where the IMPAX Data Center serves as the central archive, do not use Speciality as search criteria.

Studies

Teaching Files

Station Name

Starts with

Ends with

Contains

Does not Contain

Type or select the station that generated the study or select ... (ellipsis) to open the Favorites dialog. From the list, select a station name and click OK. Studies
Status

Is

Is not

Select the status of the study:

Dictated

Dictation Started

New

Approved

Reported

Trainee Dictated

Trainee Dictation Started

In multiple IMPAX cluster configurations, where the IMPAX Data Center serves as the central archive, do not use Status as search criteria.

Studies
Study Comments

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of the study comments.

The search returns results for both the study comments and the words used in the XML tags for the comments; therefore, you may have more results returned than expected. Some of the XML tag words include comment, ID, text, and author.

Note: This is case-sensitive for AS3000 servers.

Studies

Teaching Files

Study Date

Any Date

Date is

Today

Yesterday

Older than

Within the Last

Date Between

Type a date or select it from the calendar to search within or select Any Date. Text highlighted in red indicates an invalid date format.

Note that if you select Any Date, you must also select another criteria to search on. Unconstrained searches are not allowed.

Studies
Study Description

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of the study description from the RIS examination code.

Studies

Teaching Files

Study Description (Internationalized) *

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of the study description using East Asian characters. Studies
Teaching File Comments

Contains

Does not Contain

Type all or part of the teaching file comment that has been added to the teaching files. Teaching Files

* These criteria are available only when the UseMvfUtf8Fields entry in the AgfaHC.Pacs.Web.Services/Web.config service on the IMPAX Application Server is set to true.


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Topic number: 8605

Applies to: IMPAX 6.5.1 Client Knowledge Base