On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 09:10:47PM +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > > Staff in a hurry to churn out a script. Allergy state > > reminder pops up. Hastily select "no known allergies" since > > patient isn't there to be asked. Later "no known allergies" > > shows up when someone else looks at the chart. > I put something else in the free text part > like 'not actually known' That's good practice, yes.
I'd wish I could rely on my *staff* to be as diligent as you yourself are... ;-) If the system provides "not asked" and various other (discussable) states of non-knowledge things are better and faulty data entirely becomes pilot error. If the system does not it becomes *system-facilitated* user error and *that's* where it starts being better not to record faulty things in the first place. 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
