Loading and Running ASHM Queries
Downloading the ASHM Best Practice Queries
This resource comes with a set of queries that you can load and run.
The queries are available [here]. Download the files and extract them to the folder “My Documents \ ASHM”.
In the Database Search tool, click “Load query”. By default, this should open at “My Documents \ Best Practice”.
Browse to where the ASHM Queries have been saved (“My Documents / ASHM”) and load the query “ASHM-DATA-BP-Q2-Maybe-HBV.sql”.

Simple
Query 2 – ASHM-DATA-BP-Q2-Maybe-HBV
Find patients that do not have a coded Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) diagnosis recorded but may be HBV positive.
This query identifies people who may have Chronic Hepatitis B Virus (CHBV)infection but who DO NOT have a coded HBV diagnosis.
It identifies patients who:
- Have not been diagnosed with HBV
- Who have a positive HBsAg test
- Have been tested for HBV
- Have Hep%B included in clinical .
Query 3 – ASHM-DATA-BP-Q3-HbsAg-Level-Reported
This query finds patients who have reported a positive HBsAg test
Query 4 – ASHM-DATA-BP-Q4-HBV-Test
This query finds patients who have been tested for HBV
Query 5 – ASHM-DATA-BP-Q5-Lives-With
This query finds patients who live with somebody with a HBV diagnosis.
Query 6 – ASHM-DATA-BP-Q6-Clinical-Notes
This query finds patients who have Hep%B included in clinical notes.
Query 7 – ASHM-DATA-BP-Q7-Cancer-Drugs
This query finds patients undergoing
chemotherapy or immunosuppressive therapy
Query 8 – ASHM-DATA-BP-Q8-Currently-Pregnant
This query finds patients who are currently pregnant
Query 9 – ASHM-DATA-BP-Q9-Ethnicity
This query finds patients who have a recorded ethnicity that makes Hep B more likely