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ELR Sender Variations
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Receivers complain that senders send messages in a variety of erroneous or at least suboptimal ways that, while syntactically correct, must be adjusted in one way or another by the receiving system before they can be stored. In an effort to understand and analyze the scope of this problem, this page is provided for receiving jurisdictions to post examples(CAUTION: non-patient-identifiable!!!)of the various message formats they receive that cause problems of one kind or another.
New York State and New York City
- Some labs submit a multiple-observation message as multiple messages with one observation (OBX) per message
- some labs submit OBX segments containing information that should be in NTE (Note) segments
- Some labs submit NTE segments with observation information that should be in OBX segments
- Some labs use OBX-5 repetitions incorrectly, or at least questionably: simply to chop up a long Text result into short pieces
