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Simple MEL

MEL, SQL, Oracle

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ljburnham

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I am trying to produce the date of the patients last mammogram. We use 2 different OBS terms and patients can have both. I tried this:
{IF LASTOBSDATE("MAMMOGRAM") == "" and LASTOBSDATE("BMAMSCRTOB")== "" THEN "No mammogram on file"
ELSE LASTOBSDATE("MAMMOGRAM") "+" LASTOBSDATE("BMAMSCRTOB")
ENDIF}
It seems to pulling the correct date, but if the patient had both shouldn't it produce both dates?
Thanks
Laurie

Posted : January 18, 2017 10:19 am

jfitzmd

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ELSE LASTOBSDATE(“MAMMOGRAM”) +" "+ LASTOBSDATE(“BMAMSCRTOB”)

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Posted : January 18, 2017 11:38 am

ljburnham

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Thank you. Worked perfectly.
Laurie

Posted : January 19, 2017 1:19 am

gpincomb

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We actually use a function that allows us to pass it multiple Obs Terms and it will return the Obs Term with the most recent date and the value of that date.

Posted : January 19, 2017 9:25 am

ljburnham

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Would you be willing to share the function?
Thanks
Laurie

Posted : January 19, 2017 10:32 am

gpincomb

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OK, first I'll show you how we call the function:

fnUtilityGetMostRecentObsName(array("CHLAMYD CULT", "CHLAMYD DNA", "C TRACHO DNA"))

Here is the code for the function, it resides in the Utility library, so I do not know if this is something my predecessors created or if it is canned function:

{

local lCounter

local lSize

local lMostRecent

local lCurrentDate

local lDate

lMostRecent = 0

lSize = size(arrObsName)

for lCounter = 1, lCounter <= lSize, lCounter = lCounter + 1 do

lCurrentDate = LASTOBSDATE(arrObsName[lCounter]) /* Determine date of most recent value for this observation */

if (lCurrentDate <> "") then

if (lMostRecent > 0) then /* If there is another "valid" observation already found */

if (DURATIONDAYS(lDate, lCurrentDate) > 0) then /* If last date for observation is after last date for other "valid" observation */

lMostRecent = lCounter

lDate = lCurrentDate

endif

else

lMostRecent = lCounter

lDate = lCurrentDate

endif

endif

endfor

if (lMostRecent > 0) then /* If a valid observation has been found */

return (arrObsName[lMostRecent]) /* Return its name */

endif

return ("")

}

Posted : January 20, 2017 5:11 am

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