Greater than symbol ?

[Renee Raineri]

Hello,

Has anyone had any issues submitting using the symbols </> - affecting aptt and leukocyte values (at least) ? We are receiving an "Invalid format" error for aptt and "Only numbers are allowed" for leukocyte values.

The dictionary states for aPTT and Leukocyte values:

If your EHR allows the capture and the extraction of “<” (less than) or “>” (greater than) sign for this lab, please report “<” (less than) or “>” (greater than) sign with the value as well. If your EHR does not capture this, you may simply report the numeric value. For example <0.1, should be reported as <0.1.  

We are assuming we have to take out the symbols, but were wondering if anyone else has encountered a similar error before we go through the reformatting.

Thank you,

Renee

[Wetzold, Anne]

Hello, yes we are having this as well, for lactate. I submitted a help desk ticket and am waiting for a response. Will post it once received.

Thanks,

Anne

 

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[Gregory Briddick, Jr.]

Our system doesn't have the </> symbols reported (or maybe I built my code to exclude them, I'm not entirely sure).  This sounds like an issue with the validation method of the portal, but I am unsure whether or not this can be corrected in time prior to submission.  How many cases does this effect?  If it is a small number, can we exclude these and place a helpdesk ticket with the number of cases, variable that is giving the error, etc.  If this is effecting greater than 1% of your cases to submit, it may be necessary to convert them to floats ( <0.1 to 0.1).  Can you enlighten us on how many cases this effects?

[Salay, Gene]

In our experience, this was due to spaces between the  symbols and numbers.   Removing the spaces resolved the issue.

 

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[Renee Raineri]

Hello,

Thank you for your responses. After a little more investigating, we identified we had a negative value coming through, which it did not like. It turns out is was not the <> after all, it was the negatives. There were min values in our system as negative, these were corrected and the file went through. 

Thank you again.

Renee

[Gregory Briddick, Jr.]

I am glad you were able to find what was causing the errors.  :-)