when we determine the last hemoglobin of the month on a group of
patients, then we run a pivot table to determine the distribution of
these hemoglobins. Each person should have one hemoglobin, but
regardless of what identifier we use, MRN, name, etc, invariably there
are a few duplicates in the list. If we count, it doesn't give us the
value of the hemoglobin, there's just a "1", or "2". If we use sum,
the 2s are added and are falsely elevated (8.8+9.0= 17.8), if we
average, the 1s don't show the actual value.

Is there another way to get these values accurately, either by Pivot
Table or some other way?

hi,

have you tried to use MIN or MAX?



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