Manual Lab Entry

Typing a panel in is free on every plan, and it is the way in for a report

ClapDiet could not read.

When to type values in

You are on the Free plan, where uploads are not included

Your report is a printout, a portal page, or a format the reader cannot handle

You only want to record a few specific values

An upload came back "We couldn’t read this file automatically"

On the web

Open Lab Results and click Enter manually

Name the panel and set the date the sample was collected

Choose a test from the list, type its value, and pick its unit

Add the reference range from your report

Click Add another test for each further result

Click Save and analyse

Your panel is saved, interpreted, and you land back on Lab Results.

Finishing an upload by hand

When an upload could not be read, Enter results by hand opens this same

page for the panel the upload created. The panel's name, date and lab are shown

at the top instead of fields for a new one, and the results you type go into

it — no second panel appears. The same page opens from Add results by hand

on any panel that has no results yet.

The test

Chosen from the list ClapDiet can analyse, grouped by what it measures —

electrolytes, kidney, iron, complete blood count, lipids, thyroid and so on.

Picking a test also picks its usual unit, which you can change if your lab used

the other one. Urine pH and specific gravity are reported without a unit, so no

unit control appears for them.

The value

Just the number. A value of zero is a real result and is recorded as one.

The reference range

Worth the extra few seconds. A result is flagged low or high against the

range you give it, and different labs use different normal ranges, so yours is

more accurate than a generic one.

If you leave the range blank the value is still stored — but with nothing to

compare it against, it is recorded as normal. An out-of-range result with no

range entered will look like it was checked and cleared.

If something goes wrong

Everything is checked before anything is written, so a typo in the last row

cannot leave a half-saved panel behind. If a result does fail part-way through a

long panel, the message tells you exactly how many were saved so you know where

to pick up.

On the phone

Open the Labs tab and tap + Add

On Add Lab Panel, give the panel a name and a collection date — the lab and specimen type are optional

Tap Create Panel

On the panel, tap Add Result for each value: test name, value, unit and, if your report gives one, the range

The phone asks for the test's name and a short code rather than offering the

list. Type the name as your report prints it — "Hemoglobin", "Vitamin D",

"TSH" — and ClapDiet matches it to the test it knows; the code can be the LOINC

code if your report shows one, or a short name like HGB.

Units

Each supported test carries the units it is normally reported in — sodium in

mEq/L or mmol/L, for instance — and results are read in the unit your lab used.

A few tests are reported on genuinely different scales rather than in different

units, and those are converted before anything is judged: HbA1c given in

mmol/mol is converted to a percentage, and vitamin D in nmol/L to ng/mL.

Without that, a perfectly normal HbA1c of 38 mmol/mol would read as diabetic.

After saving

Your panel appears on Lab Results with its interpretation. Add a newer

panel whenever you have one — Trends then charts the same test across

panels, which is where a value drifting in one direction becomes visible.

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