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# Viewing New Results For A Patient

> The New Results display option shows a summarized list of all unviewed clinical data for the currently selected patient.

The **New Results** display option shows a summarized list of all unviewed clinical data for the currently selected patient. You can set up the display to list all of the unviewed items for some or all of the clinical categories such as **Allergies**, **Clinical Notes**, **Medications**, **Lab Results**, **Problems**, or **Test Results**. This is quick way for you to see "what’s new?" for a given patient. You can then click on any clinical data item in the list to see further details about it.

<Note>
  There is also a tab called Patient Summary, that is almost identical to this New Results display option. It provides the same type of information (all new unviewed clinical data), and has many of the same controls for viewing, sorting, and marking as viewed. However, the Patient Summary tab contains unviewed clinical data for all of the patients on your patient list, while the New Results display option contains data for only one individual patient. Please refer to Viewing a Summary of All Patients for more information on the Patient Summary tab.
</Note>

To display a patient summary for a particular patient, follow these steps:

1. Select a patient on the **Patient List** tab, or click on the **Details** icon <Icon icon="chart-bar" iconType="solid" /> from another option.
2. Select the amount of information you wish to display by clicking the **Timeframe** drop-down list.
3. Click on **New Results** from the display list. The first time you click the **New Results** option, you will only see the clinical data that your administrator set as defaults. You can change your preferences for the types of clinical data that you want to view using the **Options...** button.

   The display contains columns for the **Type** of clinical data item, the **Date** of the item, a brief **Description** of the item, and important **Details**. The actual information shown in these columns varies by the type of clinical data involved. Please refer to [*Viewing a Summary of All Patients*](/classic/view_patient_information/viewing-a-summary-of-all-patients) to view a description of the column contents for each type of clinical item.
4. There are additional buttons and controls on the **New Results** display option that enable you to perform a variety of activities. All of the buttons and controls listed below function in exactly the same manner as they do on the **Patient Summary** tab. Please refer to [*Viewing a Summary of All Patients*](/classic/view_patient_information/viewing-a-summary-of-all-patients) for detailed instructions on these topics.

   * Click on a column heading to change the sort order of the display.

   * Use the **Limit to** field to limit the number of clinical items that are currently displayed.

   * Click the **Options** button to select only those categories of clinical data that you wish to view.

   * Click the **Mark All Viewed** button to mark a patient’s clinical data as viewed. When you do so, you are presented with two options:

     * **Mark All Viewed**: Click this option to mark as viewed all of the items in the summary display. All the items in the display will be removed.

     * **Mark All Viewed Before Today**: Click this option to mark as viewed all of the items that have a date earlier than today. Only items with a date of today will be displayed.

   <Note>
     Only those items that are currently displayed in the **New Results** Patient Summary view are marked as viewed when you select either of these options. For example, if your **Timeframe** were set to **Last 7 Days**, any items that were older than seven days ago would not be included in the summary display, and therefore would not be marked as viewed.
   </Note>

   Similarly, if you had set your **Options** to view only **Lab Results**, only the lab results would be marked as viewed. Since the nature of this option is to show only *unviewed* items, once you click **Refresh** <Icon icon="arrows-rotate" iconType="solid" />, or log out and back in, the items you marked as viewed are removed from the display. Of course, you can always look at these items again by clicking on its respective display option in the Patient Data Display (available on the **Patient List** tab, or by clicking the **Details** icon <Icon icon="chart-bar" iconType="solid" />). In our example above, you could see the lab results you had marked as viewed by clicking on the **Lab Results** display option.

   * Click on any clinical item’s row to view additional details about it.

   When you do so, the system displays the same detail window(s) that would normally appear if you had clicked on the same type of data item in its own display option in the Patient Data Display. Please refer to the following sections for more information about the various detail displays:

   * [Viewing Allergies for a Patient](/classic/view_patient_information/viewing-allergies-for-a-patient)
   * [Viewing Clinical Notes for a Patient](/classic/view_patient_information/viewing-clinical-notes-for-a-patient)
   * Lab Results Panels: there are several detail windows for lab results. The ones that appear in New Results are the Panel Table and Panel Details windows (see [Viewing Lab Results for a Patient](/classic/view_patient_information/viewing-lab-results-for-a-patient)).
   * [Viewing Medication Orders for a Patient](/classic/view_patient_information/viewing-medication-orders-for-a-patient)
   * [Viewing Orders or Order Status for a Patient](/classic/view_patient_information/viewing-orders-or-order-status-for-a-patient)
   * [Viewing Problems for a Patient](/classic/view_patient_information/viewing-problems-for-a-patient)
   * [Viewing Test Results for a Patient](/classic/view_patient_information/viewing-test-results-for-a-patient)
5. (Optional) You may print the Summary or Detail window by clicking **Print** <Icon icon="print" iconType="solid" />. For details on printing in the display area, see the text describing *Print* *icon* in [*Understanding the Patient Data Display*](/classic/view_patient_information/ways-to-view-patient-information#understanding-the-patient-data-display).