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Sorry: See my response, I was referring to crossing accounts/visits....not same account defaulting. Bill Mullins RN Williamson Medical Center 2021 Carothers Road Franklin,Tn 37067 615-435-5630 -----Original Message----- From: Howard Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 6:46 AM To: Joe Cocuzzo Cc: Bill Mullins; [email protected] Subject: Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTRIBUTE TO LEAVE BLANK EVEN IF DEFAULT QUERIES"Y"ININTERVENTION DICTIONARY Say it ain't so Joe.... Oh well .. I really liked Bill's answer... but integrity of data is relatively important. Thanks, Howard Chase, RN Androscoggin Valley Hospital 59 Page Hill Road Berlin, NH 03570 (603)326-5669 Joe Cocuzzo wrote: > I'm not sure things are that simple, unfortunately.. > > If you set Default Queries = Y, then answers from the previous > documentation will "pull forward" to the next time you document on the > same intervention, regardless of whether you have that query set to demo > recall or not. The functionality a lot of people want in NUR is to > pull some answers from the previous time documented, but not all, and > they want this to be intervention specific. > > Having everything default is bad because you rely on users to delete or > change data that should be updated, having nothing default is bad > because the users have to keep entering answers which remain true thru > the whole visit, or thru the entire time the intervention is active. > > For example, if you had a "IV" intervention, with 1 intervention per > each IV for the patient, you might want the > "Location", "Date Started", and "Time Started" field to pull forward, > but the "amount infused" not to pull forward. > > So intervention #1 would have "Left Arm", 05/25/06, and 1000, pulling > forward each time the user documents, but the "amount infused" would be > blank. > Intervention #2 would have "Right Arm", 5/27/06, and 2310 pulling > forward each time the user documents, but the "amount infused" would > also be blank. > > Setting "Location" to demo recall = Y would not work properly for this > because there would be only 1 value in demo recall for the field, and it > would be set to whichever intervention was filed most recently. > > Also, there are lots of answers that are visit specific that you would > want to persist on an intervention during a particular visit, but you > would not want to pull forward from prior accounts. > > I also believe that demo recall will not be updated by documentation > done on PRE accounts, as they don't meet the Meditech definition of > "most recent" account. > > > > Joe Cocuzzo > Vice President > NPR Services > Iatric Systems, Inc. > Phone/Fax: (978) 805-4115 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: www.iatric.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Chase > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 11:49 AM > To: Bill Mullins > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MEDITECH-L] ATTRIBUTE TO LEAVE BLANK EVEN IF DEFAULT > QUERIES"Y"ININTERVENTION DICTIONARY > > All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to > attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com > ====================================== > > Bill, > > That is just way too simple! What on earth are you thinking? We'd much > rather spend hours writing attributes... I shared this with my NUR > counterpart, who does most of our attribute stuff... we spent about 15 > minutes rolling on the floor, laughing at ourselves because we didn't > think of this. > > Thanks, > > Howard Chase, RN > Androscoggin Valley Hospital > 59 Page Hill Road > Berlin, NH 03570 > (603)326-5669 > > Bill Mullins wrote: >> All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted > to >> attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com >> ====================================== >> >> Julie: >> >> For this to work, every query you want to default has to be set up as >> Demo Recall=Yes in MIS.QUERY DICT. Plus, setting the intervention up >> to default query responses=Yes. >> >> Now for the queries you do not want to default automatically, do not >> set them up as Demo Recall=Yes. And those will not default. >> >> Now Joe C from Iatrics sent a report with macro that will allow you to > >> decide which ones to default or not, but to me this process of >> identifying each query in MIS (as demo recall=Y or N)is easier to do. >> >> Good Luck, >> >> Bill Mullins RN >> Williamson Medical Center >> 2021 Carothers Road >> Franklin,Tn 37067 >> 615-435-5630 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Williams, Gladys >> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:05 AM >> To: Bibler,Julie; [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] ATTRIBUTE TO LEAVE BLANK EVEN IF DEFAULT >> QUERIES"Y"IN INTERVENTION DICTIONARY >> >> All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted > to >> attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com >> ====================================== >> >> Please post any replys--thanks! >> Gladys Williams, RN MBA >> Sr. Clinical Systems Analyst >> Sinai Health System >> office:773.257.6527 >> fax: 773.257.2268 >> email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bibler,Julie >> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 3:23 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [MEDITECH-L] ATTRIBUTE TO LEAVE BLANK EVEN IF DEFAULT QUERIES > >> "Y"IN INTERVENTION DICTIONARY >> >> All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted > to >> attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com >> ====================================== >> >> Hi L-Listers, >> I have an intervention that is set in the intervention dictionary to > >> default queries "Y" so that the previous answers will appear each time > >> the nurse documents on it (it is a checklist). I have some queries I >> do NOT want to default in and am looking for the attribute to >> accomplish this. I could put the >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]"query"] attribute on the ones I DO want > >> to default in, but that requires the nurse to enter through each query > >> and they want to see at the glance what is already documented. >> Thanks in advance for thinking about this. >> >> Julie Bibler, RN >> Nurse Analyst >> Benefis Healthcare >> Great Falls, MT >> (406) 455-5073 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> meditech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> meditech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l >> >> ********************************************************************** >> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and >> intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they >> are addressed. >> >> This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by > Sophos and MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. >> ********************************************************************** >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> meditech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > meditech-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l > _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
