xLab Report Test Order

It is often desirable to set the order Tests and Results are ouput on sample reports. xLab facilitates this process with Report Test Order. Multiple Report Test Order definitions may be created. Note that xLab comes pre-configured with one Report Test Order definition that simply orders Test and Results in alphabetical order. The pre-configured Report Test Order definition can of course be modified (as we are going to do below)

xLab also comes pre-configured for most all possible Tests and Results for Chemistry, Hematology and Urinalysis which can consist of many tests you may never use. To this end, the Check Box "Display only Orderable Tests" can be used to limit the list of Tests to only those you have on your Order Entry screen.

Initial selection of Report Test Order presents the screen below.

From here you can; Create a new Report Test Order or select an existing one to edit.

Step one is to select the Report Order definition you wish to edit or "<New>" to create a new Report Order definition.

We are going to select "Version 1" to edit. As you can see a list of all Tests in xLab are presented. To make it easier we are going to check the "Display only Orderable Tests" to reduce the list to a more managable size.

Ah, much better! Clicking on a Column header will sort the list by that Column. For example; If we click on the Column Header "Code" the list will be sorted alphabetically by Test Code, Clicking on the Column 'Order' will sort the list in numerical order and so on. This works for the Test List as well as the Result List (see below.)

Each Test is of course composed of one or more Results. Clicking anywhere on a Test Row will display the Results for the selected Test.

We have "Clicked" on BMP and now we can see the Result List for BMP

From here we can set the Order of the Results for the BMP. For both Test Order and Result Order you do not need to "fill the blanks" meaning the order numbers need not be sequential (I.E. 1,2,3,4,5 ....). As you can see here, we used; 1 and 2 for CA and GLU; 10, 11,12 13 for NA, K, CL and C02; and 10,21,22 for BM/CR, BUN and CREA. Makes it much easier to organize your order.

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