Automatically set Place of Stay according to Adress

[SORMAS-JanBoehme]

Feature Description

When a case is created automatically from a lab result, the "Place of Stay" should be set automatically by the system if a corresponding facility can be identified.

Added Value/Benefit

This will increase speed of data entry as well as quality of the data by automatically filling in information if possible.

Acceptance Criteria

• Place of Stay is automatically selected and linked to the correct facility if possible
• Place of Stay is set to "Home" if no facility could be identified

Implementation Details

When a case is created automatically from a positive lab result the following logic should be performed:

1. Does the lab message contain an address of a facility?
2. No --> Set "place of stay" to "Home", End of logic
3. Yes --> Go to 4
4. Does the Street, House Number, Postal Code and City is an EXACT match (see below for definition of "exact") to a an active facility stored in SORMAS?
5. No --> Set "place of stay" to "Home", End of logic
6. Yes --> Got to 7
7. Set "Place of Stay" to facility
8. Set "Facility Category", "Facility Type" and "Facility" to the correct values for the matching facility
9. End of logic

Edge cases:

• Provided address matches to more than one active facility in SORMAS --> Use the first result as the matched facility

Definition of an "exact" match:
For each field, the string needs to contain the exact same characters (inluding special characters like umlauts and accents) in the exact same order after the following actions:

• Trim all spaces from the string (" Test Street ôn the Hill " becomes "TestStreetôntheHill") - Reason: Avoid mistakes from someone entering spaces in the beginning, the end or forgetting spaces in the middle
• Convert to lowercase ("TestStreetôntheHill" becomes "teststreetônthehill" - Reason: Avoid typos by humans or automatic conversion of data by the lab system

Mockups

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Additional Information

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[SORMAS-JanBoehme]

@markusmann-vg This is not directly related to Pertussis but came up during the discussions on those topics.