Users Manual Part 2

430 Patient ID handling
Roche Diagnostics
cobas
®
pulse · Software version 01.03 · User Assistance · Publication version 1.0
The Patient ID validation configuration works in
conjunction with the following configuration items:
• Patient ID pattern validation (keyboard)
• Patient ID pattern validation (barcode)
• Patient ID pattern validation (RFID)
These configuration items specify the pattern used to
validate a patient ID entered by the corresponding
methods (keyboard, barcode scan, RFID tag).
Configuration
You configure the Patient ID validation configuration
item using the following:
• Data management system (e.g., cobas
®
infinity POC)
• Barcode (generated via cobas
®
infinity edge)
u Related topics
• Patient ID pattern validation (keyboard) (430)
• Patient ID pattern validation (barcode) (431)
• Patient ID pattern validation (RFID) (433)
Patient ID pattern validation (keyboard)
This configuration item specifies the expression used to
validate a patient ID entered using the keyboard.
A regular expression is used to validate character/
number patterns, minimum length, and maximum length
with the following:
• Validate the input and use it completely as an ID.
This configuration item can contain Unicode characters.
Item ID
PATIENT_ID_PATTERN_KB
Available values/format
ST:0-500 (regular expression)
No default value set.
Example:
Input checked for pattern and completely used as ID
Regular expression: PA\d{1,5}
Input: "PA123"
Extracted ID: "PA123"
The input PA123456789 violates the given regular
expression and will not be accepted as a valid patient ID.
11 General configuration