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Notes:
• Any pre-population of AOE responses based on data from the order occurs only once. If you change or clear any information that appeared automatically, that information will not be pre-populated again.
Likewise, if you subsequently change any information in the order, the corresponding changes are not made to the AOE responses. For example, if an AOE response was automatically populated with the physician’s name, and you then change the physician in the Order Information section, that change is not made in the Ask at Order Entry Questions (AOEs) section. However, you will be notified of the discrepancy when you complete the order. (This notification also occurs if you change the pre-populated AOE response but not the corresponding data within the order.)
• To delete one of the previous responses from a displayed list, click  next to that response in the list. If any dependent responses already appear in the Ask at Order Entry Questions (AOEs) area, they are not deleted.
• For clients that collect specimen type data, if a particular test always requires an irreplaceable specimen, the Ask at Order Entry Questions (AOEs) area displays that information, but no response is needed. For tests that might require such a specimen, you are prompted to indicate the nature of the specimen. If the specimen is indeed irreplaceable, the phrase IRREPLACEABLE SPECIMEN will appear on the requisition, and an additional label will be printed for each applicable test and the specimen bag. These labels display the requisition number, client number, patient name, and the word IRREPLACEABLE.
• Your response might be automatically converted to all capital letters, depending on the lab.
• For some AOE questions, only specific types of responses are allowed. For example, a particular question might require a date or a number. Some numeric responses might require a whole number (with no decimal point) or one or two decimal places. If you type an unacceptable response, a message appears; click OK, correct your response, and try again.
• If you choose a response from a list, the abbreviated form of that response might appear on the requisition, followed by the response you chose in parentheses. For example, the response Abdomen might appear as ABD (Abdomen) on the requisition.
• If two or more tests have the same AOE question, you might not have to provide the same answer twice. If an administrator grouped similar AOE questions, all of the affected tests appear in a single section, and the common AOE question appears once below them.
If a common AOE question is identical for all affiliated tests, then the question is always presented in exactly the same way, no matter which test you ordered first. However, if the question or potential responses are different, the question affiliated with the first ordered test is presented. For example, for order code 3526, a valid response to the AOE question might be any text. For order code 17176, the response to the same question might be restricted to a date. If you added order code 3526 to the order first, then your response to the common question could be any text. If you added the order code 17176 to the order first, then your response would be restricted to a date.
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