When you display results in the flowsheet, (by choosing the flowsheet tab) you have the option of using the “template”.
This is a table of the common test results that you might want to see without all the odds and sods that get in the way (like 87 INRs).

I have set the template up for me, and you can change it for your self.
To see the template table use Tools/Advanced/Browse A Table, move to the data folder and open res_dot.dbf.

You will see that this table has 2 columns -

1. Row - the order you want to see the results appear in.
2. Obs_type being the name of the test you want in this place.

Entries in the original table appear in row order, but this is not necessary. so you can add an item with row = 2.1 at the bottom of the list and it will display that 3rd.

Limitations
When the flowsheet generator uses the template to create a limited flowsheet, it must have the obs_type entries in capitals, and they must exactly match the spelling that comes from the lab. Unfortunately different labs call the same test by different names, and while there is a code for the tests, the is generated at the lab and …..you guessed it…..different labs have different codes! So using the test names that you get from your lab/s means you should get reasonable displays. One of my biggest bug bears is glucose which seems to appear under a number of different guises. So what I suggest is using the same row entry for what is in essence the same test.

While these won’t appear on the same line of the flowsheet they will be right next to each other.
While I am on this subject, different labs, or the same lab at times, use different normal ranges for the same tests, this results in different lines appearing on the flowsheet for each unique range. The choice seemed to be accept this or not display the normal ranges. The overwhelming feedback that I have had has been to keep the normal ranges, however I am thinking of options here.

Tests that you probably want to add to the template are lipids, which were formerly delivered as a text message, but most labs send them as numerics now.

Once you have made all the new entries you want save the changes to the table, and that’s all there is to it.

What gets displayed.

The flowsheet with template will show all the results for the selected patient of the types which are listed in the flowsheet. So it may be a very short list. The results are ordered across the page with the most recent next to the test name.
Results which the lab has noted as abnormal have an asterisk before them.