# Refresh Patient Information

You can refresh a patient's information so that recent changes will be reflected. To refresh a patient's records, select File | Refresh Patient Information. This option will refresh the information of the currently selected patient in the same manner that changing patients looks for the latest information. Refreshing a patient's information will result in notes in progress being saved, and the review/sign changes screen will appear if changes are pending.

If the user has opened the chart and changed the patient's location (from an inpatient location to an outpatient location or vice versa), but has not written any orders, the following dialog will appear when the user selects File | Refresh Patient Information to enable the user to select where orders should be processed that are written later:

This dialog appears after a refresh when the patient's location has been changed, but no orders have been written yet. The reason for this is that sometimes it can be difficult to make sure the patient's location is correct when the location has changed.