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After the status has been set to stopped (STP), all pending requests but WOR_REQ are cancelled automatically at the remote hub. In this case, no REQ_CAN messages have to be sent by the transplant centre. The only way to reactivate the patient is to send a request (generic or other). The request is necessary since it cannot be guaranteed that the patient information is still up-to-data or stored at all at the remote hub. It is up to each hub General data retention policies determine, how long patient information is retained after the search was stopped.
However, it makes no sense to delete a patient who is in workup. Patient searches are sometimes not stopped at remote hubs although the search is not really active any more. This wastes time for matching and gives bad statistics about search length and search counts.
All hubs are strongly encouraged to monitor their international searches closely and stop or suspend them if not longer needed. The searched hub is allowed to send reminder faxes with patients without activities to the patient’s hub.
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| UpdateRegisteredPatientStatus | UpdateRegisteredPatientStatusDequeue |
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