VPS GET ALLERGIES (3372)    REMOTE PROCEDURE (8994)

Name Value
NAME VPS GET ALLERGIES
TAG GET
ROUTINE VPSALL01
RETURN VALUE TYPE ARRAY
AVAILABILITY RESTRICTED
INACTIVE ACTIVE
DESCRIPTION
Called by the Vetlink Kiosk system.   VPS GET ALLEGIES retrieves patient 
allergy data stored in an entry or entries in the PATIENT ALLERGIES file 
(120.8).  The retrieved data is made available to the Vetlink system. 
INPUT PARAMETER
  • DFN
    PARAMETER TYPE:   LITERAL
    MAXIMUM DATA LENGTH:   30
    REQUIRED:   YES
    SEQUENCE NUMBER:   1
    DESCRIPTION:   
    The patient DFN is used to collect the various allergy related fields 
    stored in the Adverse Reaction Tracking package.
    
RETURN PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
Data taken from an entry or entries stored in the PATIENT ALLERGIES 
field is defined 
3.      iens are the internal entry numbers at which the allergy record 
is stored.  This element can have either the entry level ien for 
non-multiple or it can have both the entry level ien and the sub-entry 
ien.   It is constructed as "sub-entry ien, entry ien"  for data coming 
from sub-files (multiples)
4.      field number is the numeric field reference from where the data 
has been retrieved
5.       field label is the name of the field
6.      data value  is the data that was retrieved from the field
file (120.8) are populated into the local array.
 
Each element in the subscripted array is constructed as:
subscriptedArray(n)= "file number^iens (sub-entry ien, ien)^field 
number^field label^data value"
1.      where n is an incremental number that acts as an index in the 
array
2.      file number is the file or sub-file reference from where the