Mohamed,

It is not clear what these concepts are. Is your form to document physical exam 
or review of systems? If so, then you need to be clear about:

1) Why are you collecting this information? (In my experience, it is almost 
never of clinical use, so you have to have a real reason for making clinicians 
enter it)
2) Be sure what the concepts actually mean. What is being examined/reviewed? Do 
the categories make sense? What does ABNORMAL/NORMAL mean in your context? 
Looking at what other people have created in the dictionary (for example 
CIEL/MVP or PIH) will help you make sure you are not creating something that 
doesn't make sense.
3) Search an existing concept dictionary (maternalconceptlab.com/search.php). 
Look for thinks like 'card exam' or 'review of systems'.
4) If you don't have them in your dictionary, you can use maternal concept lab 
to export them and then import them into your dictionary using metadatasharing 
module.
5) If you want to short cut this, either use 1.9 with the CIEL/MVP dictionary 
or you can download a 1.6.x version from dropbox.

Andy
 
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>________________________________
> From: mohamed Duali <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:58 AM
>Subject: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] concept dictionary
> 
>
>Dear all :
>
>I am designing an HTML form and  I need some  guidance about the concept 
dictionary . On the paper  form, attached to this message , I have 
Cardiovascular system, Respiratory system, Gastrointestinal system + liver 
...etc . I 
did no find those concepts in dictionary . Do I create my own concept ? 
or what else it the best way to do ?.
>Best regards,Mohamed 
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