if you use a concrete example, say the diagnosis selector in mdw, then there's a free text
entry box associated with a prefix searching combo selection box of accepted , built in terms,
then it's just placing a link a link of the free text to the term ( but actually the code associated
with the combo selected term ). So mdw could do it pretty straightforwardly by eliminating
the either / exclusive or only button that selects between free text unencoded diagnosis
and coded diagnosis combo selection, and when the ok button is pushed, check to
see if a combo selection AND a free text entry has been made , and create a link in their
coding tables (probably will need a second table for free text storage and a link field to
the static coding table). Or as some people on this might boast, " ..why it's child's play, my
xx year old could do it, in fact he did, blah blah blah .."
On Thu Jul 20 22:51 , Horst Herb sent:
On Thursday 20 July 2006 06:11, Ian Haywood wrote:
> IMHO I would like to be able to enter an exact/idiosyncratic diagnosis,
> such as "T2DM, brittle", but also assign a code, thus forming a new
> thesaurus entry, so the association is made automatically next time.
This is what we had been doing in Norway, and what I was advocating ever since
arriving in Oz - some 9 years now already
I advocate it because it WORKS. It keeps doctors happy - they can use their
own terms. It grows over time - no big funding needed to create it ad hoc.
Horst
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