Finding Patients with eGFR < 20
In this instance, I select that I want to view lab results that are numbers < 20. I want to look for 'egfr' in the lab measure name. I also don't want to separate by lab type, as I don't care if I find 'eGFR Afr American' or 'eGFR Non Afr Amer' or simply 'eGFR' -- if the last time the patient had a lab come in on any of these it was less than 20, I want to see the patient and lab value on the list.
Finding Patients with Urine Glucose < 80
Let's imagine that in the past, I noticed urine glucose labs coming in with many different names-- 'URINE GLUC', 'GLUC', 'GLUC ANALYSIS', etc. However, I also sometimes receive blood glucose labs that won't be relevant to my current search. I can select Separate by Lab Type: Yes, and then each measure that contains 'gluc' will appear on a separate line -- at that point I can export my data and filter out any non-relevant labs.
The issue with separating by lab type is that if I have a Urine Gluc from 5/1 that met the criteria and a Urine Glucose from 5/20 that did not meet the criteria, the Urine Gluc would still show up if I choose to separate by lab type, even though the most recent time we took a comparable lab it did not meet the criteria.
Finding Patients with COVID-19 Viral PCR test of "Positive"
In this instance, I actually have different labs that I want to check at once -- one of my labs is sending back "NAA" as the lab measure name for the Viral PCR Test, so I've attached it to a fishbone under 'COVID.' Thus, this report will find it, along with labs that are reporting the measure as 'COVID-19 Viral PCR' as well as COVID-19 Viral Antigen testing that I perform.
I want to find instances where this is 'Positive,' but one of my labs reports these results as 'POS' and 'NEG' -- these will both be captured by selecting my result type as alpha and putting in the result value of 'pos.'
Please note that if I also do COVID-19 Antibody Testing, I may need to either be more specific and search for measures one at a time, or else attach a very specific fishbone name so that I can easily separate these out.
