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Update medications without a start date

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vhayes

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Someone was nice enough to help me with a script to update problems without an onset date in EMR that worked great. I am now looking to update our meds that were entered without a start date. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Virginia

Posted : July 26, 2016 8:45 am

rwilliams

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What is the logic that it would use to set the date? Should it be based on the date it was entered?

This is how I would do it in oracle if I wanted to update the startdate to the date that the medication was added to the chart (the date the row in the DB was created):

update medicate set startdate = ml.convert_id_to_date(medicate.mid) where startdate is null; commit;

It looks like you are on CPS according to your profile. I do not have a CPS database but my best guess would be a command like this (note, I am not sure if the convert_id_to_date function exists in cps but I will assume it does)

begin tran; update medicate set startdate = convert_id_to_date(medicate.mid) where startdate is null; commit;

These would update every start date that was null. I am not sure if you would want to do that to replaced medications. If you only wanted to do it for active rows you would and "and change = 2" to the end of the queries.

Posted : July 26, 2016 9:05 am

jfitzmd

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Just a word of caution, be very careful when you are updating tables directly from SQL queries. GE is not sympathetic when there is a problem.

Posted : July 26, 2016 11:43 am

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