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How to Resolve PAA Saving Issues When Duplicate Accounts Exist (CRM)

This guide explains how to resolve PAA (Pre-Admission Assessment) saving errors that occur when duplicate patient accounts exist in your system.

Before You Begin

Ensure you have administrative access to your Dazos CRM system to temporarily modify duplicate prevention settings.

Steps

  1. Identify the cause: When a PAA fails to save with a duplicate detection error, this indicates that multiple accounts exist for the same patient in your system.

  2. Contact Dazos Support: Open a support ticket and provide the patient's name and any relevant details about the PAA saving issue.

  3. Support will temporarily disable duplicate prevention: A Dazos agent will temporarily turn off the duplicate prevention rule to allow the PAA to be saved immediately.

  4. Save your PAA: Once notified by support that the rule has been disabled, complete and save your PAA form.

  5. Choose your next action: You have two options:

    • Merge duplicate accounts: Ask support to merge the duplicate patient accounts into a single record

    • Complete PAA first: If you prefer to finish your current work, you can complete the PAA and request account merging afterward

  6. Request rule reactivation: Once your PAA is saved and any duplicate accounts are merged, ask support to reactivate the duplicate prevention rule.

Verification / Expected Result

After following these steps:

  • Your PAA will save successfully without duplicate detection errors

  • Duplicate accounts will be merged into a single patient record (if requested)

  • The duplicate prevention rule will be reactivated to protect your system going forward

Why Duplicate Accounts Occur

Even with duplicate prevention enabled, duplicate accounts can still be created in certain situations:

  • Records imported from external integrations (like Netsmart)

  • Data entered with slight variations in formatting (different email addresses, name variations)

  • Information that differs enough from existing records to bypass the matching criteria

When to Contact Support

Contact Dazos Support immediately when:

  • You receive duplicate detection errors when trying to save a PAA

  • You need duplicate prevention rules temporarily disabled

  • You want to merge duplicate patient accounts

  • The PAA continues to fail after duplicate prevention is disabled

When contacting support, provide:

  • The patient's name and date of birth

  • Screenshot of any error messages

  • Whether you want accounts merged immediately or after PAA completion

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