SEPARATE STUDIES

n Click on the Worklist tab.
n Click on the QuickView button quickview.gif (122 bytes)
n Click Split Study.
n Assign all images and reports to new orders.
n Click Split button to complete.


To split a single study, go to the Quick View page and click on the Split Study button.  The Split Study page consists of three sections.  The top section is the control area where you identify the new groupings.  The second section displays all the images in the study.  The last section displays an icon for each report object (main report, addendum, private report file) in the study. 

To separate a group of images, place the mouse over the image or report to determine its reference number.  At the top section, select Series or Image from the pull-down list, enter the starting and ending Series/Image number, the starting and ending report number, and a new Accession Number.  An ending number must be present, so for a single series or image, enter the same value in the starting and ending fields.  Click on Save.  The group is color-coded.  All series, images and reports assigned to the same Accession Number will be put onto the same study.  When all the image and report objects are assigned to a new group, the Split button becomes active.  Click this button to complete the separation.  It may be necessary at this point to modify the patient demographic information by using the Edit function.

Once a study is archived and removed from the worklist, it is treated as a retrieved study when it returns to the worklist, meaning it cannot be separated using this tool.  If your attempt to separate a study fails, check to see if the study was retrieved from an archive.