On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 12:28:07AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote: > In the case of a patient reporting a "past history' issue, you might > enter quite a bit of detail into that "new" (retrospective) health > issue. Are you asking whether to embed (i.e. copy) the entirety of > *that* into the Crohn's Disease row? If you put it this way I clearly see the answer to my question. The thing is that initially (when entering a new past medical history item from another encountlet progress note editor) one is offered a "one-line" field only. Hence the (wrong) temptation to keep that in the "old" progress note, too.
> I agree with your idea to NOT do that. It would be analogous, would > it not, to a patient having 2 issues dealt with at the same visit, Yes it would, eventually. > A workflow question. As part of creating a phx item, would a > selection of soap text of interest > "11/2004 heavy use of Ibuprofen for acute bout of chronic > polyarthritis" be lost (unselected) as you type "phx" or would the > selection be kept by virtue of some special key you would press > before typing "phx" to invoke an edit area? Huh, it works in a different way :-) I hear the patient say: "uh, and then, back when I was at age 11 I underwent removal of the appendix". I think to myself: "Hey, that's a past medical history item, let's trial that spiffy new widget the developers tell me I paid my last support fee for, and curse them if it ain't any good !" So off I go typing "phx" into the progress note (in a Soap line). Right after typing the "x" in "phx" up pops the past medical history widget and I can seemlessly keep typing "s/p append" <TAB> "11 years" <TAB> "thanks $deity we don't need to worry about appendicitis in this Crohn patient" thereby filling the fields "condition", "age onset", "progress note". Hitting <ENTER> will save them into the EMR as a past medical history item (clin_health_issue), replace the "phx" in the original progress note line with "s/p append at age 11 years", and close the popup. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
