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What are the steps to writing a report request? -✓✓0. Identify the data elements you will
need for the report.
1. Find the INI + Item numbers of the data points to use on the report
2. Use the INI + Item numbers to find the appropriate Clarity tables and columns.
3. Join the Clarity tables together using the correct foreign key information
What activities in Chronicles can be used to look up information about data? -✓✓- Item
Information Window (Ctrl + click)
- Record Viewer
- Item Editor
- Category List Maintenance
When will Ctrl + click not work? -✓✓If the field is read-only or simply incompatible
What does the Record Viewer show? -✓✓The Record Viewer provides a read-only view
of raw data in a Chronicles record.
When should you use Record Viewer? -✓✓When ctrl+click doesn't work to find the INI +
Item number for a piece of data, and you know the specific record or contact you're
interested in
If you see '101-Inpatient' stored in Record Viewer, what is actually stored in Clarity -
✓✓'101'
I IDM 130 is a networked item that is not filled in for a particular record. What value will
be extracted to Clarity for this item, and other Chronicles items that are not filled out? -
✓✓NULL
What value will be extracted to Caboodle for this item, and other networked items that
are not filled out in Chronicles? -✓✓If the column is a key column, Caboodle will have a
-1 letting report writers know that this value was not populated in the source, while still
enforcing referential integrity.
When do null values exist in Clarity? -✓✓Not all fields are populated in Chronicles, ETL
data cleansing deletes incorrectly formatted data, and/or a column is deprecated and
can no longer extract data
, What does the Item Editor show? -✓✓The Item Editor shows the definitions of a
Chronicles Item. Note that it does not show a particular value stored in the item.
Instead, it shows information about how the item behaves for all values.
What is a category list? -✓✓A category list is a list of defined values that can be stored
in a Chronicles item.
What is the Release Range? -✓✓The Release Range describes which category values
are released by Epic and cannot be changed. Note that any category values you see in
Training that are outside the release range may differ from what you see back home at
your organization.
A Chronicles item stores a single value, but can store a separate value for each contact
on a record. Which of the following could account for this behavior? (Choose all that
apply)
A. Single Response
B. Multiple Response
C. Networked
D. Overtime
E. No-Add
F. Category -✓✓A and D. If a Chronicles item can store only one value it is a single
response item. If a separate value is stored on each contact the add type is Overtime.
What is an Add Type? -✓✓An item's Add Type describes how long a piece of data is
valid. It determines whether an item's value is stored on each contact, or directly to the
record.
No-Add -✓✓No-Add items store data directly on a record, not a specific contact. The
value is true for all contacts on the record.
Response-Each-Time -✓✓Response each time items store values separately on each
of a record's contacts. If a response each time item is blank for a certain contact, it
should be considered unknown.
Lookback -✓✓Lookback items store values separately on each contact, but assume that
the last value entered remains true until a new value is entered.
Difference between overtime and no-add types? -✓✓Since both response each time
and lookback items store data on the contact, these add types may collectively be
referred to as overtime add types.
No-Add data is stored at the record level, while Overtime data is stored at the contact
level.