Invalidating conditions or diagnoses

Since the Patient Chart is a clinical record of patient care, it must be completely accurate. To maintain an accurate clinical record, Dentrix allows you to correct errors in the Patient Chart to reflect the actual care given by letting you invalidate procedures that are in history. Invalidating a procedure removes it from the Patient Chart, while leaving it on the Ledger.

You can also invalidate conditions and diagnoses instead of deleting them to preserve their history and maintain an accurate clinical record of a patient's care. Invalidating a condition or a diagnosis does not remove it from the Patient Chart.

To invalidate a condition or diagnosis

1.   Select a patient.

2.   In the Progress Notes panel, double-click the condition or diagnosis that you want to invalidate.

The Change Condition/Diagnosis dialog box appears.

3.   If necessary, type a new date.

4.   Select Invalidate Condition/Diagnosis.

5.   Type a note, and then click OK.

Dentrix invalidates the condition or diagnosis and places an asterisk in the Description column in the Progress Notes panel.