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The Research Encounters module is a module that affects the way the Encounter Encounters and Forms tab appears appear on the patient dashboard. This module allows you to hide or show encounters Encounters and formsForms by role, as well as to divide encounters up into clinical vs. research encounters.
Configuration
Configuration is setting (formerly global property from platform 1.8 downwards) based. Here are the settings (formerly global properties and from platform 1.8 downwards) and their definitions:
researchencounters.researchEncounters
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