Extract only A08 messages from SMAT for certain Pt Type

[Paul Johnston]

Hello ,

Is it possible to extract all A08 messages CONTAINING a certain patient type ( ie LCS) from SMAT logs (using GUI or tcl) .

This is not for the purpose of resending the messages.

Thanks

Paul

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[James Cobane]

Paul,

You could do it in a couple of steps; first ‘Add specified messages to view’ and use LCS as your contents. This would give you all the messages that contian LCS. (If the value ‘LCS’ is within a specific field, you could specify |LCS| as your contents). Then you could do a ‘remove specfied messages from view’ and check the ‘not’ option and use ‘ADT^A08’ as the contents.  That should essentially leave only ADT^A08 messages containing ‘LCS’ in your view.

Hope this helps.

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health

[Paul Johnston]

Hi Jim ,

How are you ?

I did think of this solution but it didn’t seem to work for me.

I loaded 1718 messages using GUI SMAT. I first select all LCS and got 78

messages in the View.  I then tried to REmove specific message NOT inlcuding the A08. It selected 1079 messages from the View.

I am not sure how it got 1079 when there were only 78 messages in the VIEW.

Thoughts ?

Paul

[Paul Johnston]

Jim ,

Actually , I think the solution does work. !!

The SMAT file I had loaded never had any A08 messages .

I tried another file it I was able to isolate the A08 and LCS messages.

The GUI SMAT is a little misleading with the message count it displays.

Or is it my interpretation.

Paul

[Steven Spain]

Or, for UNIX/Linux, using perl, from the command line:

cp message_file.msg some_file

perl -pi -ne ‘s/MSH/nMSH/g’ some_file

grep A08 some_file |grep LCS > file.tst

file.tst should contain newline messages that contain A08 and also LCS . . . might take some tweaking, but it gets around the GUI, or hcismat, esp. if the .msg file is very large.

Steven . . .

[Alan James]

Paul – the SMAT counts are a bit confusing, but not necessarily misleading.  The searches you specify are carried out against the entire file being viewed, not just those you have “selected”.  So, when you select 78 out of 1000 messages, and add them to your view, and then want to further filter them, SMAT carries out your instructions against the 1000 messages, not just against your selected 78 messages.

Takes a little getting used to…

[Author]

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