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IF-THEN Help, Please

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kathyl

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Hi everybody. First off, I will be honest and say I have no clue what I am doing and will be fully relying on someone else's brain to help me. I thought I was going to be clever and use a quicktext to cover our CARETRANSIN obsterm. I just modified a quicktext we already use for our new patients but sometimes they are referred and sometimes they are not, so that wasn't going to work. And yes, it's too much trouble to have 2 quicktexts. Smile So then I thought maybe, just maybe an IF-THEN might work.

IF the referring physician field is occupied, THEN the CARETRANSIN would populate referred or consult or something of that nature. If there is no referring physician, then nothing would happen.

Any suggestions? Or how is anyone else doing this workflow?

Kathy Lugo

Ear Medical Group

Posted : February 8, 2013 3:52 am

gibsonmi

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For Quicktext, you could use -

{OBSNOW("CARETRANSIN","TRUE")}

or if you do not want to output any text use -

{if OBSNOW("CARETRANSIN","TRUE") <> "" then "" else "" endif}

Replace TRUE without whatever you want to go in the observation. Or if you want to do if-then and have access to vfe, put a simple statement in the white space that looks like -

{if document.referringphysicianvariable <> "" then

OBSNOW("CARETRANSIN","TRUE")

else OBSNOW("CARETRANSIN","") endif}

And just replace referringphysicianvariable with the actual variable name

Posted : February 8, 2013 4:34 am

kathyl

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Thank you so much for the tip. It helped a great deal. Now I'm trying to add it to my meaningful use checklist to make it a little more automatic for my peeps. And then I thought, why not put the caretransout there too? LOL.

Attached is the checklist I took off this site some time ago (thanks whoever made it, I forgot). I have modified it a bit.

I don't want the text in the note if the obsterm is blank (if they weren't referred here or referred out). I tried putting "no" but it counts it in the denominator of my report and I don't want it in the denominator. I only want it if it's a yes. Hope that makes sense. And I hope I'm not asking for the moon. Again, thanks in advance.

MU Checklist CPS9 -- 2-1-13.dlg

Posted : February 12, 2013 1:08 am

kathyl

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We have decided to just use the {OBSNOW("CARETRANSIN","TRUE")} rather than the IF-THEN. But thanks so much for your help.

Posted : February 19, 2013 11:20 pm

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