The Inactive field allows the patient’s record to be marked as inactive by clicking on the check box. If required, an appropriate code may be selected as a reason for doing so. In this example, DEC indicates the patient is deceased.

The patient Code is used for identifying and locating the patient within EXACT. When creating a new patient record EXACT will automatically assign a unique code to the patient. This allows for positively identifying patients with the same or similar names.

Note the * before the code - this is used in EXACT to indicate a patient record is inactive.

This number is usually assigned by the system and is generally used only when practices have converted from another dental software system, or if the practice files patients numerically rather than alphabetically.

This field can also be used to sort patients, enabling you to sort patients by number, alternative reference, etc, rather than by code.