1.1 Basic Query
You can find patients by placing a health condition (term) on a "Query Tool" group panel.
[How to]
- Find a term
- Go to "Navigate Terms" tab
- Click term folders to narrow down the concept
- If a target term is found, select the term
- Drag and drop to "Group 1"
- Drag the selected term into "Query Tool > Group 1"
- Run Query
- Click "Query Tool > Run Query" → "OK"
- Get Result
- Query running status will be displayed in "Show Query Status" tab, which is located below "Query Tool"
- Query result will be displayed in "Graph Results"
- Number of patients
- Query name
- The query and its result will be stored and displayed in "Previous Queries" tab
- You may revisit the query and result from the "Previous Queries"
[Example]
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- Find Acute respiratory infections
- Go to "Navigate Terms" tab
- Select Diagnosis → Respiratory system → Acute respiratory infections
- Drag and drop
- Drag the Acute respiratory infections term into "Query Tool > Group 1"
- Run Query
- Click "Query Tool > Run Query" → "OK"
- Get Results
- See the "Graph Results" tab for the query result
- You may refer the information later from the "Previous Queries" tab
1.2 Adding an AND term
Terms in different groups have logical AND relation.
[How to]
- Find a Term
- Go to "Navigate Terms" tab
- Click term folders to narrow down the concept
- If a target term is found, select the term
- Drag and drop to "Group 1"
- Drag the selected term into "Query Tool > Group 1"
- Find another Term
- Drag and drop to "Group 2"
- Drag the selected term into "Query Tool > Group 2"
- Run Query
- Click "Query Tool > Run Query" → "OK"
- Get Result
- See the "Graph Results" tab for the query result
- You may refer the information later from the "Previous Queries" tab
[Example]
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- Find Acute respiratory infections
- Go to "Navigate Terms" tab
- Select Diagnosis → Respiratory system → Acute respiratory infections
- Drag and drop
- Drag the Acute respiratory infections term into "Query Tool > Group 1"
- Find Bronchodilators
- Go to "Navigate Terms" tab
- Select Medications → Respiratory agents → Bronchodilators
- Drag and drop
- Drag the Acute respiratory infections term into "Query Tool > Group 2"
- Run Query
- Click "Query Tool > Run Query" → "OK"
- Get Results
- See the "Graph Results" tab for the query result
- You may refer the information later from the "Previous Queries" tab
1.3 Adding an OR term
Terms in the same group have logical OR relation.
[How to]
- Find a Term
- Go to "Navigate Terms" tab
- Click term folders to narrow down the concept
- If a target term is found, select the term
- Drag and drop to "Group 1"
- Drag the selected term into "Query Tool > Group 1"
- Find another Term
- Drag and drop to "Group 1"
- Drag the selected term into "Query Tool > Group 1", again.
- Run Query
- Click "Query Tool > Run Query" → "OK"
- Get Result
- See the "Graph Results" tab for the query result
- You may refer the information later from the "Previous Queries" tab
[Example]
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- Find Acute respiratory infections
- Go to "Navigate Terms" tab
- Select Diagnosis → Respiratory system → Acute respiratory infections
- Drag and drop
- Drag the Acute respiratory infections term into "Query Tool > Group 1"
- Find Asthma
- Go to "Navigate Terms" tab
- Select Diagnosis → Respiratory system → Chronic obstructive diseases → Asthma
- Drag and drop
- Drag the Acute respiratory infections term into "Query Tool > Group 1", again
- Find Bronchodilators
- Go to "Navigate Terms" tab
- Select Medications → Respiratory agents → Bronchodilators
- Drag and drop
- Drag the Acute respiratory infections term into "Query Tool > Group 2"
- Run Query
- Click "Query Tool > Run Query" → "OK"
- Get Results
- See the "Graph Results" tab for the query result
- You may refer the information later from the "Previous Queries" tab