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[Usman Azher]

Is there anyway I can search for multiple patients in a single search criteria using regular expression? If I have multiple search criterion, I do not get any results. It might be because it is doing an ‘AND’ with the criterias?

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[Richard Gibbs]

For example, we would like to create a single search for multiple patient ID’s as follows:

“123|345|789”

Cloverleaf’s implementation of “regular expressions” does not appear to allow  us to use “|” or “OR” operations.

Also, I haven’t figured out how to search for more than one text string in a message.  For example, if I want to find OBR and ROUT, I can use “OBR.*ROUT”, but I can’t use “OBR|ROUT”.

[Elisha Gould]

Hi,

Is this in relation to routing? If so take a look at the documentation for wild card routing.

With the routing cloverleaf will add ^ and $ to the start/end of the statement.

ie OBR|ROUT becomes ^OBR|ROUT$

so it looks for OBR at the start of the text or ROUT at the end of the text.

To use in the Routing wild card routing use:

(OBR|ROUT) to look for the exact match of OBR or ROUT

(.*OBR.*|.*ROUT.*) will look for a match containing OBR or ROUT

[Usman Azher]

Elisha,

Thank you for your response. After using the parenthesis in the search criteria we were able to solve our problem. We can now search for multiple messages using just one search criteria. Re-sending messages is much quicker now!

Thank you!

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