I'm going to be keeping track of progress of patients across multiple
visits, and I have a couple ideas of how to do that.
[[cc1]] (short for chief complaint 1) would be the first complaint tiddler,
lets say with an alias of "headaches"
In that tiddler would be several fields filled in on the first visit, e.g.
location, onset, quality, severity, frequency, etc.
On each subsequent visits (visit tiddlers would be dates, e.g
[[2020-04-27]]) there would have to be updates about that cc1 condition,
say "VAS-high" and VAS-low" for the patient's pain levels between visits,
and there would potentially be several more data points like that to record
and keep track of over time (things in the general headings of Subjective,
Objective, Assessment, and Plan Of Management)
My initial thought (Visit-centric) would be to have in the visit tiddler
("2020-04-23") a field called cc1.vashi and cc1.vaslo and keep the info
there:
[[2020-04-23]]
field "cc1.vashi"=9
field "cc1.vaslo"=4
The alternative (Complaint-centric) would be to have tiddlers called
cc1.VAS-high etc (probably tagged with "cc1") and have them as data
tiddlers with keyvalue pairs like:
[[cc1.VAS-high]]
2020-04-23:9
2020-04-27:7
Or maybe it would be better to put info into the visit tiddler as keyvalue
pairs:
[[2020-04-27]]
cc1.vashi:7
cc1.vaslo:3
Having never done a really big TW project before I'm not sure if any of
these makes more sense than the other, but I envision making notes on
anywhere from 10-30 variables for each visit and I plan on being able to
attempt to correlate changes in one variable to changes in others as a sort
of in-office research project (do changes in leg length correlate to
headaches or a certain treatment procedure, e.g.)
• Question: Is there actually a "best practice" for a project like
this, or is one data structure as good as the next?
I guess I'm wanting the best way to A) track progress over time and B) find
previously unseen data relationships and manipulate it the way TW nicely
does.
P.S. Does anyone ever put keyvalue pairs in fields (e.g. field="vashi"
text="2020-04-23:9,2020-04-27:7", or would that be a nightmare to use in
macros and filters later on?
thanks,
- Dave
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