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Populating OBSNOW date

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Anonymous

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Hope everyone had a great holiday!

I am looking to make a basic form to help my RN's quickly enter labs from previous providers. i.e. my OB patient's often come in with their labs that need to be entered into our system.

I was thinking the best way to do this is to use OBSNOW. I know the first argument is the OBS term, second is the value, and third is the date. I cannot figure out how to get the date to populate on the flowsheet (it is using the current date).

The format in my head is three columns. One with value of the test and the other is date of lab test. Then have an action button set to RUNPROCESS in the third to "commit" the value to the flowsheet.

Is this as simple as setting the button to:

OBSNOW("HCT",DOCUMENT.HCT,DOCUMENT.DATEOFLAB)

or will I need to write a function to call this?

Thanks for anyone and everyones help!

Geoff

Posted : December 26, 2013 6:36 am

jjordet

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you got it right.

Posted : December 26, 2013 9:59 pm

Anonymous

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I thought I was on the right track but it keeps populating with today's date instead of the date the labs were actually drawn.

My second edit field(DOCUMENT.DATEOFLAB) is masked to a date field. Would that make a difference?

Thanks!

Posted : December 26, 2013 11:41 pm

marylongcore

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We use a combination of two fields and then a record button to accomplish this. One field is for the test value/result (DOCUMENT.AST from below), and one field is for the date of that test/result (DOCUMENT.DATE19 from below). The function attached to the Record button (Rec_AST from below) then pushes those two values. My coding skills are somewhat weak, so I suspect someone else could help you with something cleaner. Still, for our enterprise, this seems to work well enough.

{fn Rec_AST(){
if DOCUMENT.DATE19 <>"" then 
   IF mtch_dt(DOCUMENT.DATE19) == TRUE THEN 
      OBSNOW("SGOT (AST)", DOCUMENT.AST, DOCUMENT.DATE19) 
   ELSE 
      USEROK("Please enter a valid date - mm/dd/yyyy. Click OK to continue")
   ENDIF
else
   if USERYESNO("Use today's date for AST?")=="Yes" then
      OBSNOW("SGOT (AST)", DOCUMENT.AST , str(._TODAYSDATE))
      DOCUMENT.DATE19=str(._TODAYSDATE)
   else
      ""
   endif
endif
}}

Posted : December 27, 2013 12:00 am

Rebecca B.

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Mary,

Hello. I am trying your method. But, I keep getting a function error?

Any help is appreciated.

Rebecca B.

Posted : September 18, 2014 2:41 am

joeg1962

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Rather than posting this again, take a look at my post here for a form to enter prior-dated data, relative to HEDIS measures. However, should be pretty straightforward to modify for other OBS fields.

https://centricityusers.com/?pa.....fe/#p13500

Posted : September 18, 2014 9:54 pm

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