Generating Cumulative Analyte Reports
If you are allowed to view cumulative reports and want to monitor specific analytes (such as glucose, total cholesterol, or white blood cell counts), you can define which analytes you want to monitor for each client that you can access. After you have done this, a cumulative analyte report (also known as a chart strip) automatically appears at the end of each subsequent patient test results report that includes a measurement of that analyte. (These analyte reports are generated for all patients of the client.)
You can specify the maximum number of results to include in each analyte report; each reported measurement includes the date and time that the result was obtained. You can also specify how the analytes should be grouped, and the order in which the groups should be listed in the report. Including multiple results allows you to see how particular analyte measurements have changed over time whenever a patient test results report is generated.
After you have defined which analytes you want to monitor, you can manually generate an analyte report for a specific patient at any time. Manually generated analyte reports can combine results from tests ordered by multiple clients.
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Notes: • To generate a cumulative report that contains information about all of the analytes associated with each test that has been performed for a patient (not just those analytes that have been defined), see Generating a Cumulative Test Results Report. • If any of the patient’s pending orders were processed at a different lab—for example, if the patient went to a Quest Diagnostics PSC while traveling—those results might not be included in any automatically or manually generated cumulative analyte report. • Automatically generated analyte reports cannot include data from archived patient reports. For example, if patient reports are archived after three years, and you indicate that you want the analyte report to include the results of the last five tests, and a patient has a particular test performed only once a year, the analyte report for that patient will include only the results of the last three tests (since the preceding two test results, being more than three years old, will have been archived). Each automatically generated analyte report indicates the earliest possible date for which data can be included. If you need to view archived data, you can manually generate an analyte report. |
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