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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Changes to GuiMain - Suggestions (ctd)
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Karsten Hilbert |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnumed-devel] Changes to GuiMain - Suggestions (ctd) |
Date: |
Tue, 7 May 2002 17:27:08 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.3.22.1i |
> > My patients almost always have two problems and often up to four or
> > five. I have played around with the best way of recording the data in
> > these multi-problem consultations and do not have a perfect answer. I
> > think encapsulating each problem in its own section of the page is the
> > best approach. I prefer [S1O1A1P1; S2O2AOP2] to [S1S2O1O2A1A2P1P2]) but
> > use a line of tildes as a demarcator on the first run through the
> > history.
>
> I prefer a free narrative widget with autotext expansion and hotkeys
> "tagging" words / phrases in the narrative for database referencing. Like:
> "hx cough*14d(tab)"
> -> expands to "history of cough for 14 days"
> ->tab key triggers parsing -> "cough" tagged as "presenting complaint", "14
> days" tagged as duration of presenting complaint.
> Takes a little while to get used to such a system, but it allows you to
> continue your narrative style as used to while at the same time collecting
> data in a suitable format for later analysis
I have seen the exact same variety of approaches (tagging vs.
fields) discussed on our German list. Seems like we will need both.
Thank God this is Open Source :-)
Karsten
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