Class: LIS::Message::Patient

Inherits:

Base

• Object
• Base
• LIS::Message::Patient

Defined in:

lib/lis/messages/patient.rb

Overview

Patient Message

Contains patient information, patient ID, name.

Message Examples

2P|1|101|||Riker^Al||19611102|F|||||Bashere

2P|3|326829;AH|||Last 3^First 3|||F|||||

2P|1|119813;TGH|||Last 1^First 1|||F|||||

5P|2|66412558|||||||||||

Message Structure

1. Record Type (P)

2. Sequence #

3. Practice Assigned Patient ID

4. Laboratory Assigned Patient ID

5. Patient ID

6. Patient Name

   (Last^First^Initial; maximum of 20 characters for Last Name; maximum of 15 characters for First Name)
   

7. Mother’s Maiden Name

8. BirthDate

   (YYYYMMDD; maximum of 8 characters)
   

9. Patient Sex

   (M or F; maximum of 1 character)
   

10. Patient Race

11. Patient Address

12. Reserved

13. Patient Phone #

14. Attending Physician ID

15. Special Field 1

16. Special Field 2

17. Patient Height

18. Patient Weight

19. Patients Known or Suspected Diagnosis

20. Patient active medications

21. Patients Diet

22. Practice Field #1

23. Practice Field #2

24. Admission and Discharge Dates

25. Admission Status

26. Location

27. Nature of Alternative Diagnostic Code and Classification

28. Alternative Diagnostic Code and Classification

29. Patient Religion

30. Marital Status

31. Isolation Status

32. Language

33. Hospital Service

34. Hospital Institution

35. Dosage Category

Constant Summary

Constants included from ClassMethods

ClassMethods::CONVERSION_WRITER

Instance Method Summary

• #initialize(sequence_number, patient_id, last_name = "", first_name = "") ⇒ Patient constructor

  A new instance of Patient.

Methods inherited from Base

from_string, #to_message, #type_id

Methods included from ClassMethods

#default_fields, #field_count, #get_field_attributes, #get_index_for, #has_field, #set_field_attributes, #set_index_for, #type_id

Constructor Details

#initialize(sequence_number, patient_id, last_name = "", first_name = "") ⇒ Patient

Returns a new instance of Patient.

# File 'lib/lis/messages/patient.rb', line 73

def initialize(sequence_number, patient_id, last_name = "", first_name = "")
  self.sequence_number = sequence_number
  self.practice_assigned_patient_id = patient_id
  self.patient_id = patient_id
  self.name = [last_name, first_name].join("^")
end