Deleting lab test results

Dentrix Enterprise stores the results for a patient's diagnostic lab tests (for example, blood tests, biopsies, and cultures) that have been received through the HL7 interface. You can delete those results as needed.

Notes:

You cannot use this feature for items such as crowns and prosthetics.

Accessing a patient's lab orders to delete test results requires the "Manage Lab Tests" security right.

To delete lab test results

With a patient selected in Chart, do one of the following:

Click the Orders button on the toolbar.

On the File menu, click Orders.

If applicable, do one of the following:

If the Password - Manage Lab Tests dialog box appears, user verification has been assigned to the "Manage Lab Tests" task. Do one of the following:

If your user account has been granted the "Manage Lab Tests" security right, enter your credentials in the User ID and Password boxes, and then click OK.

If your user account has not been granted the "Manage Lab Tests" security right, have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can manage lab orders this one time. The overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.

If a message appears, informing you that you do not have rights to this operation, your user account has not been granted the "Manage Lab Tests" security right. To have a user with permission temporarily override this restriction so you can manage lab orders this one time, do the following:

On the message, click Yes.

In the Password - Manage Lab Tests dialog box, the overriding user enters his or her credentials in the User ID and Password boxes and then clicks OK.

The Orders dialog box appears.

Notes:

All lab orders for the patient appear in the Orders list.

All test results (results attached and not attached to an order) for the patient appear in the All Results list.

Any test results that are attached to a lab order that you select in the Orders list appear in the Results for Selected Order list.

Under All Results, select the lab test result that you want to delete.

Click Delete Result.

Note: This button is available only if a lab test result is selected.

A confirmation message appears.

Click Yes.

Click Close.