OBX Results Format

[Rick Martin]

I have a new type of result I need to format into OBX segments (in ORU messages) for results that have 3 data elements and can have multiples of those 3 data elements.  

Specifically, the data elements are Antibody, Marker and Result.  For instance,

antibody1 marker1 result1

antibody2 marker2 result2

antibody3 marker3 result3

etc

How would this typically be done in an OBX segment?

I’ve thought about doing something like:

OBX|1|TX|antibody1^marker1||result1

OBX|2|TX|antibody2^marker2||result2

OBX|3|TX|antibody3^marker3||result3

My concern with the above format is that the antibodyn codes can vary from test to test causing confusion for the receiving system(s).

Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?

Thanks, Rick

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[Nora Katz]

Is this coming from the Blood Bank department?

Do you mean “antibody1” could be antiE, or anitC, or antiFYA?

Why not just make the code “antibody1” and the result should have the name of the antibody?

Or I guess you could build a code for each antibody (AB_antiE, AB_antiC), but that could get extensive.

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