On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:45:45AM -0800, James Busser wrote: > a front desk staff bring up a patient "Ngan Nwan An" in her workflow, and > needs to contact an outside agency who asks the patient's name, to which > the answer is "Ngan Nwan An". > > Only to be asked "is Nwan the middle name, or is it the last name Nwan An?" > > Answer: wait... I'll need to click over to Patient details That is a good argument.
> Is there any reason (local custom) to have settled on the name presentation > as > > "Mr/Mrs First [Middle] [other Given names] [one-or-two-part] Last name"? No. > The alternative > > Last, Title First +- more > > would be clearer. Done. "Lasts, Title/Salutation Firsts (nick)" 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
