Removing an OBX segment

[Arslan Khan]

Hi Guys,

I am running into a situation where I have to remove one OBX segment, which I am converting into an NTE segment, as follows:

Inbound:

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OBX|1|NM|GLUF^Glucose, fasting|1.1|6.6|mmol/L|(3.3-6.0)|H|||F OBX|2|FT|GLUF^Glucose, fasting|1.2|Impaired fasting glucose     6.1-6.9 mmol/L~Diabetic                     >6.9    mmol/L||||||F

Outbound:

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OBX|1|NM|GLUF^Glucose, fasting|1.1|6.6|mmol/L|(3.3-6.0)|H|||F OBX|2|FT|GLUF^Glucose, fasting|1.2|Impaired fasting glucose     6.1-6.9 mmol/L~Diabetic                     >6.9    mmol/L||||||F

NTE|||Impaired fasting glucose     6.1-6.9 mmol/L NTE|||Diabetic                     >6.9    mmol/L

Receiving system wants me to remove the second instance of OBX, in this case:

OBX|2|FT|GLUF^Glucose, fasting|1.2|Impaired fasting glucose     6.1-6.9 mmol/L~Diabetic                     >6.9    mmol/L||||||F

I am using an xlate to do this OBX-NTE conversion. Is there is a way to remove the same OBX segment (which is being converted into an NTE) inside an xlate?

Any ideas how to accomplish this?

Thanks.

Arslan Khan

Topic

[Daniel Lee]

Can you just use a PATHCOPY and copy an @null into that iteration of the OBX?  Are you always going to only have one OBX in the outbound thread?  If so define the OBX as non-repeating in the outbound varrient and your BULKCOPY should take care of only keeping the first one.

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