When a patient gets created and one or more searches started, this is a one-time search. The search results will not be automatically updated. If you are interested in automatic updates of search results for that patient you will need to turn this on.
Once it is on, every 24 hours the relevant matching engine will be queried for changes to the search and the search will be updated accordingly.
To enable automatic refresh/updates, do the following:
When "auto refresh" is turned on, you may see changed records in the search results. These look like this:
To learn how to view donor records that have been updated since a specific date/time, please visit this page.
For a full diagram on the logic of patient states and their effect on automatic updating of search results see Patient states and their effect on automatic updating of search results (full logic)