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Patient dots

When a filter value represents a small group, the Visualizer draws one dot per patient on that value's row instead of a single solid bar. Dots let you preview and open individual patients without changing your cohort.

The Age at Dx card showing rows of individual patient dots

When dots appear​

Dots appear only when both are true:

  • the value represents 20 or fewer patients, and
  • patient IDs are available for that value.

A value above the threshold stays a normal proportional bar. The Bars behind dots toolbar control adds a faint bar behind the dots for scale while keeping the dots visually dominant; this preference is stored by your browser.

Hover a dot to preview a patient​

Point at a dot to open a patient summary tooltip. Depending on the available data, the summary can include diagnoses, stage, biomarkers, treatments and procedures, findings, ruled-out diagnoses, uncertainty flags, and a note count. Hovering never changes your cohort.

Click a dot to open a patient​

What a click does depends on where the dot is:

  • On a main Cohort Explorer card — clicking a dot opens that patient as a tab in the Selected Patients drawer. This works even when no filters are active, and it does not select the filter value or change the cohort.
  • In the Filter Details dialog — clicking a dot pins the summary in place so you can read it. It does not open a patient tab.
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Clicking a patient dot never selects the filter value. To narrow the cohort, click the value's label or bar instead — see Select and combine filters.

Continue with Explore a patient to see what opens when you open a patient tab.