Lab identification in the DSM data

This article describes how labs are identified in the DSM Lab Extract during importing.

Matching

Most of the lab tests we count are one DSM line per lab done, and the best way to identify them was per lab name/ID.

Some other lab tests lead to multiple results and are reported as a group of lines per lab done. For those, we identify them by group.

Updates

The import function checks for values not previously seen on each import. If there are new ones it adds them to the list and alerts the user to decide if they should count toward one of the labs we collect.