Configuring Letters

Oracle Argus Safety enables the customizing of letter templates in order to correspond with reporters or health officials and keep them updated with case activity. Access to the Letter Configuration dialog can be granted to any user or user-group, as found appropriate by the Administrator.

• To automatically generate a letter, the system reads a template that specifies the information that must appear in the letter.
• The template is a file in Rich Text Format (.rtf format) that contains the letter text and some field identifiers (also called placeholders). The system substitutes information specific to the current case for the placeholders in the template. Thus, a letter containing case-specific information is automatically generated.
• The administrator can set up the system to create and schedule letters automatically, according to pre-defined business rules. This section discusses the creation, modification, and deletion of letter templates.

Select Code Lists > Argus to view the Code List page.

Tip:

The code list items are displayed in the left-panel. Click the required Code List folder to be configured.

The details of this code list item appear in the right panel.

Configuring letter (RTF) templates

RTF Document can be created using the required placeholders such as:

[patient_last_name], [product_name]:[n], [rec_vacc_date]:[n]:[m], [event_prior_hist:primary_event], [reg_report_timeframe]

Most of the placeholders have one parameter or two and these are almost always linked to sort order.

Here are some examples of how these placeholders extract data:

For single value columns:

[age],[case_id],[comments],[case_status],[country_of_inc]

For multiple value columns:

[event_death:primary_event] picks data from case_primary_event table

[event_death]:[n] picks data from case_event/lam_event table based on Sort order

[case_notes]:[n], [concentration]:[n],[drug_code]:[n]

For multiple parameter columns:

[ingredient]:[n]:[m] - It lists nth case product and lists its mth ingredient

For more information, see:

• Field Descriptions