On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:25, Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: > Greg > > You wrote: > 1) Patients without surnames; 2) no DOB's; 3) no postcode goes in if > the suburb is misspelled and no warning is given; > > > 1) There are patients with only a single name. Some of us make that their > surname with no 1st name, others make that the 1st name with no surname, > some use that for 1st & surname. This is difficult; fortunately we haven't yet got someone with a single name.
> 2) Sometimes an elderly patient brings a grandchild. They are not sure of > correct DOB. In these cases some of us leave it blank rather than type in > a wrong DOB I've used 1/1/xxxx for these people for over 20 years, copying someone who gave out birthdays to indigenous persons with no idea of their birthdate. > 3) I still have patients who misspell the suburb. If they know the correct > postcode, the software will fix the suburb. In cases where they don't know > postcode, I enter the misspelt suburb. I have staff who mis-spell the suburb, and its local ones too, but they are Wiradjuri names and difficult. > > For above 3 we need software that is flexable & allow us to do the odd > things in examples 1,2,3. > > Cedric > > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk -- Sometimes I feel like I'm fading away, Looking at me, I got nothin' to say. Don't make me angry with the things games that you play, Either light up or leave me alone. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
