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Letter OBS term help

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kkopp

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I am creating a letter in GE.

I am trying to pull in BP, Occupation, weight one year ago, PMH, PSH.

Does anyone know the codes for these to pull into a letter?

Thank you 🙂

Posted : August 22, 2014 5:54 am

DavidShower

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Katie, the easiest way to find those observation terms is to find a document where they were recorded in an update, right click on the document and choose "View Clinical Lists Updates" and it will show you what obs term is being used for each value.

Posted : August 22, 2014 6:34 am

kkopp

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I did that with the BP.

In the letter I out in {LASTOBSVALUE("BP DIASTOLIC")}

{LASTOBSVALUE("BP SYSTOLIC")}

and nothing pulled in even though there way a BP recorded previously.

Posted : August 22, 2014 6:38 am

DavidShower

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I don't know why but the Help example for that function is formatted like this:

{'{LASTOBSVALUE("HEIGHT")}'}

Try doing your BP SYSTOLIC that way.

Posted : August 22, 2014 6:49 am

jjordet

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remember that letters only pull from signed updates, not current updates.

Posted : August 24, 2014 10:59 pm

kkopp

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I had entered a bunch of vital signs, and then signed the office visit and still nothing pulled in. This is what I have....some values pull in and some don't.

Temp: {LASTOBSVALUE("TEMPERATURE")}

BP:

Pulse: {LASTOBSVALUE("PULSE RATE")}

RESP: {LASTOBSVALUE("RESP RATE")}

OXYGEN: {LASTOBSVALUE("O2SA RST AIR")}

HEIGHT: {LASTOBSVALUE("HEIGHT")}
CURRRENT WEIGHT: {LASTOBSVALUE("WEIGHT")}

BMI: {LASTOBSVALUE("BMI")}

WEIGHT ONE YEAR AGO:

NECK CIRCUMFERENCE:

Marital Status: {PATIENT.MARITALSTATUS}

Number of Children:

Past or Present Occupation: {OBSANY("OCCUPATION#1")}

Family Physician: {PATIENT.PCP}

Reason for Today's Visit:

Posted : August 26, 2014 6:13 am

jjordet

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This looks fine. Which ones aren't showing?

In response to David's post...

the {'...'} is for when using in text components...causes continuous evaluation.

I've never used {'...'} in letters or handouts, and things work appropriately.

Posted : August 26, 2014 10:58 pm

kkopp

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Blood pressure and past or present occupation are not pulling in. I can not find an Obs term for BP that works.

Posted : August 26, 2014 11:00 pm

jjordet

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start checking your forms for BP and occupation obs terms. should work if you're populating the obs terms.

Posted : August 28, 2014 3:42 am

joeg1962

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Continuing with Jerroll's thoughts, I created a Crystal Report to help me with issues such as this. I export the report to Excel, to make access/viewing simpler; especially since I can often use a report that is a month or two old. The columns of the report are:

HDID = Obs code #

Count = number of times I found; useful to guess how much data to expect

Date = last time used; helpful to see if not current

Code = the alphabetic abbreviation for the code

Description = the long description of the code

group type = GE grouping

group name = name, like chemistry or vital signs

For me, the count and date are the most important when trying to utilize data in letters or extract for a report since those will give me an indication of what to expect.

For instance, I may have thought that a form was writing data to one OBS term, only to discover few records at that OBS term. And, that the form was in fact writing to a different OBS term.

CountOfObsTerms

Posted : August 28, 2014 5:21 am

kkopp

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I finally got it to work. Thank you!!!

Posted : August 28, 2014 6:29 am

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