Narrowing Search Results

Introduction

Synapse displays up to the maximum number of results configured for your site when you run a QBE (Query By Example) search. If your search returns more than the maximum results, the following prompt displays: Please add additional filter criteria. See your System Administrator for more information.

Complete the following steps to narrow the focus of your search by selecting fields that require specific rather than general data. For example, entering the patient’s Accession number will narrow the focus of the QBE search considerably. Other helpful QBE fields include Patient Name, and Study Date and Time.

Steps

  1. Open the preferred Worklist.
  2. Click to place your cursor into a QBE field in the column located across the top of the open list.
  3. Type the text or numbers, as appropriate, in one or more columns.
    • As you type, you will see matching filter results display in the Worklist.
      • In the All Studies Worklist, studies for each patient are sorted by the QBE field you select.
      • In the Unread Studies, All Patients, and All Recent Studies Worklists, studies are sorted using the study date time. If more than one study exists for the patient with the same study date time, Synapse uses study instance UID to further sort the patient's studies.
      • QBE Worklists and other Worklists sort studies using the same strategy as their parent Worklist. Note that you are able to duplicate a Worklist and redefine the sort criteria within SWAT.
    • Once populated, the QBE fields display with a yellow background.

Note:
  • Press ENTER to open the highlighted study.
  • The more columns you use, the more refined the search.
  • In most cases, text entries are not case sensitive. However, search results for DICOMSCU do not display if you perform a QBE search of the Modality column using lower case letters.
  1. Optional: After entering search criteria, do one of the following:

If you want to do this...

Choose this option...

Move to the next QBE field.

Press TAB.

Clear QBE filters of the criteria you entered.

Right-click in any QBE field header and click Clear All Filters.

Additional Information

Here are some helpful tips for using the QBE fields mentioned in the introductory text.

If you want to search by...

Enter these values...

Accession number.
  • Enter the full accession number.

Patient Name.
  • Last Name, First Name
  • Last name only
  • , First Name

Study Date and Time.
  • Click in the Study Date Time field. The date picker displays.
  • Select the Range option.
  • The From: and To: date fields default to the current date.
  • Enter the preferred date range in month, day, year format (mm/dd/yyyy).
  • Click OK to search on your selected date range or click Cancel to clear the field.

MRN
  • Enter the full MRN.

Related Topics

Using Advanced QBE

Patient Name QBE Examples

Text String QBE Examples

Using Logical Operators

Numeric QBE Operators and Examples