add-on test priority/filter

Catherine · Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 11 Location: Georgia

Eric,
Our site has decided to use an add-on priority to catch tests that slip thru the cracks. How would I define that filter and would it be inclusive or exclusive? We already have an exclusive filter used for Stat proprity tests. Thanks

ericai · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 12:19 am Post subject:

I assume your exclusive stat filter looks something like this:

You might think that you could just add the other priority like so:

But this won't work because the mutual exclusives cancel each other out.

The quickest way to fix this would be to invert the logic and change it to an inclusive filter:

^ (change "<>" signs to "=" signs)

- (change filter type to Include)

If you don't think you'll need any other fancy filters in the future you should use the above. However inclusive filters can be a little inflexible if you ever decide to do something tricky like- also include any routine Cardiacs from ICU or something. So for simplicity you might instead want to, instead of filtering in stats, filter out all other priorities.
Here is an exclude type filter that filters out priorities:

So here you are back to using an exclusive filter, but instead your are excluding all unwanted priorities. Later on, this filter will be easier to work with if you decide to do some fancy filtering.

*If some of your tests come across with no priority, they are still assigned a default priority:

You can change the default priority in Advanced tab of settings.

Catherine · Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 11 Location: Georgia

Eric, I ended up using the exclusive filter but it took me a while to determine why our AMDRAW priorities were still displaying. I finally concluded that OLMonitor only accepts five characters and we have it defined with six in Sunquest MA4. AMDRAW vs. AMDRA
Thanks for your help