Re: [Gnumed-devel] need assessment from fellow clinicians

[Jim Busser]

On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:36 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Any soAp item can be a diagnosis and it can be marked is_aoe.

*Only* soAp and AOE items can be a diagnosis?

Can a sOap row containing anisocoria or ptosis also "be" a diagnosis?

Or in order to qualify (be counted) as a diagnosis, must the condition 
first be carried into a soAp or AOE row, and coded there?

And how is "is_aoe" meant to function? It was earlier suggested that 
not all components of SOAP need to be filled in at every encounter. An 
encounter may therefore contain no AOE until the user creates one. So 
maybe until there is an AOE the soAp is assumed to be is_aoe and the 
field is redundant
-- unless we wish to support a case of an AOE having been created, but 
allowed to be "blank", in which case it could be "obsoleted" at any 
time by editing the soAp to be is_aoe?