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mobsval and mobsdate - did they do away with these symbols

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lkeith

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Good morning, just noticed that a handout that the L&D dept use has some fields that are no longer working. For example: {mobsval("CHLAMYD DNA ","CHLAMYDIA AB ",”CHLAMTRNATNA”)} and {mobsdate("CHLAMYD DNA “,"CHLAMYDIA AB ",”CHLAMTRNATNA”)}

It is returning "function definition is not executable". Did GE do away with these symbols? If so, what is an easy way to be able to pull in a value from the possibility of 2 or more obsterms?

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Linda

Posted : December 22, 2016 4:48 am

dcarpenter

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I have never heard of mobsval. Does it only return the latest value, or all of the observations that have any value.

I wrote a function myself to get the latest value from a pair of obs terms, because our lab sometimes sends data to the wrong one. I am pretty sure it could be extended to include multiple values. let me know what the expected return value is and I can get back to you.

Thank you,

Daniel

Posted : December 22, 2016 5:48 am

lkeith

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What it needs to do is pull in the result and the date of the result if the obsterm was one of those obsterms. I think the reason is because of how tests were ordered it could be a different obsterm that the result would be saved to and regardless, the result needed to be included on this handout. I have several fields like this, one for GC, HIV and Rubella titer as well.

Thanks!

Posted : December 22, 2016 7:05 am

Lee

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Looks like a custom function name. 'm' most likely meaning 'multiple'. Might want to examine the source of the function to find the definition.

Posted : December 22, 2016 10:23 am

lkeith

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That's what it was! Thanks Lee. Apparently someone copied a portion of the OB Summary report and created a OB Lab Test Results handout, but didn't copy the function section! I happen to pull the one that had been copied so that was why it didn't work. Duh!

Posted : December 22, 2016 10:42 am

dcarpenter

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I'm glad you found it. I built a custom function myself anyways that will find the latest OBS term out of a list of possible obs names, and return the latest name so you can use it with the standard GE Mel code such as OBSPREV and LAST_SIGNED_OBS_DATE to get the same information. it was good practice on using getnargs and getarg for functions with unknown amounts of input. I'll post it here anyways because why not. 🙂

{fn GetLatestOb(){
local count = getnargs()
if (count > 1) then
local newest = getarg(1)
for c=2, c <= count, c=c+1 do
local Obs2 = getarg(c)

local diffVar = DURATIONDAYS(LAST_SIGNED_OBS_DATE(newest),LAST_SIGNED_OBS_DATE(Obs2))
if (OBSPREV(newest) <> "" and OBSPREV(Obs2) <> "") then
if (diffVar >=0) then
newest = Obs2
endif
else if (OBSPREV(newest) <> "" AND OBSPREV(Obs2) == "") then
newest = newest
else if (OBSPREV(newest) == "" AND OBSPREV(Obs2) <> "") then
newest = Obs2
else
newest = ""
endif endif endif

endfor
return newest
else if (count==1) then
return getarg(1)
else if (count <1) then
return ""
else
return ""
endif endif endif
}}

an example of this function being called would look like this:

GetLatestOb("HDL","LDL","HGBA1C","UA DRUG")

if the Drug screen was done yesterday, and the other labs were done a week ago, the function will return "UA DRUG". You can use as many or as few Obs as you like, and the latest will always be the one returned. I use it in my forms to check on labs that sometimes get put in the wrong Obs terms like so:

Diabetic Eye Exam: OBSPREV(GetLatestOb("DM EYE EXAM,EYE EXAM, DIABEYECHK")).

If a patient has none of the above obs terms filled, it returns a blank.

Thanks for letting me share, and have a great holiday everybody!

Posted : December 23, 2016 6:29 am

lkeith

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Thanks for the work on the function you built. It may come in handy for something else.

Posted : December 27, 2016 2:21 am

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