Pediatric Institutions - DOE patients and Age

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Alexander Milligan
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Pediatric Institutions - DOE patients and Age

Our current process for Doe patients is to have the default age of 1/1/1900. Interested to hear if any pediatric institutions have a process to ensure neonatal/pediatric context applies to their patients. We recently had a NICU patient with an age of 123 years old, and it caused a lot of confusion/problems with entering orders correctly. We are an Epic institution, and if the RN doesn't update the DOB on creation of the profile, we have to submit a request to data integrity to update, which takes a long time to complete when most of our Doe patients need this updated in the moment so the appropriate context applies when they get to the floor.

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