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Hello,
I am a bit new to MEL expressions and need some help. I am creating a letter to send to referring physicians.
I want to pull data from an obs term but change the text displayed in the letter: The chart note says " Sclerotherapy of varices listed above " which is tied to an obs term. I want this to display in the letter as " Sclerotherapy of non-saphenous varices. "
Can I use an if then statement to make this happen? What would it look like?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Posted : April 2, 2014 3:33 am
Are there any other options that could be in the obsterm? If that is the only posibility or thats the only one that needs to be altered I would just use
replacestr(OBSNOW("obsterm"),"varices listed above","non-saphenous varices")
An if-then would look like -
if obsnow("obsterm") == "Sclerotherapy of varices listed above" then
" Sclerotherapy of non-saphenous varices. "
else if.....
....
endif ....
You might have to add formatting to that depending on how you want it to read
Posted : April 2, 2014 3:58 am
Topic starter
There are other options in the obs term but that is good to know.
I guess I do not quite understand the syntax. I am hung up on the else and endif.
{if obsnow("IVCTP1") == "Sclerotherapy of the varices listed above" then "Sclerotherapy of non-saphenous varices" else "" endif}
That is obviously wrong, how would I fix it? 
Posted : April 2, 2014 4:30 am
Try -
Else obsnow("IVCTP1") endif}
Posted : April 2, 2014 5:19 am
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Hmm I don't get an error message but it still shows Sclerotherapy of varices listed above.
Posted : April 2, 2014 5:31 am
The text has to be exactly the same in the Obsterm for this to work, right down to the capital letters and extra spaces. If it still doesn't work I would recommend running a Mel trace, if you search this forum you should find instructions on how to do it, it's a very useful tool
Posted : April 2, 2014 5:36 am
Topic starter
I will double check my text. Thank you very much for the help.
Posted : April 2, 2014 5:39 am
