Potential Discrepancy Between Easy Search Results and PECS Records

The custom detail pages in PECS show the custom record as it exists in PECS. These detail pages are accessed through either the Advanced Query/Customization tab, or by clicking the “Link to record in PECS” link found on the Easy Search Results screens.

When you use Easy Search to look up Drug-Drug Interactions or Duplicate Therapy, in the background you are searching a different database table than the one that used to store the actual PECS record. The Easy Search results page shows only data from custom records in an Approved state that have been exported in a custom update and processed by an external process named DATUP. If a custom record hasn’t gone through these steps, you will see the FDB record and there will be a discrepancy.

Also, if a previously approved/exported custom record is updated, Easy Search will not show the updated data in the results page until the record is approved, exported, and processed by DATUP. Instead, Easy Search will show the custom record results that were last uploaded to DATUP.