wrong patient (was Re: [Gnumed-devel] editing of progress notes)

[J Busser]

At 3:51 PM -0500 3/4/05, Horst Herb wrote:
> I sometimes do enter records for the wrong patient accidentally, and only
> notice next time I see that patient.
> I then manually graft this record by direct database manipulation, because the
> user interface doesn't let me, and this is a PITA.

Emphasizes the value of having that patient photo on the screen!

On account of our having clin_root_item we cannot simply change the 
patient to whom the record is linked (we wouldn't want to, anyway)

So would we

- first go to patient A who had an inappropriate entry

- - audit this "wrong record" with an audit comment "wrong patient" 
and a sOAP note to document whether or not any action is needed for 
patient A based on this wrong entry and then

- for the patient into whose record the data *should have gone* 
(patient B), assuming you can figure out who that was...

- - somehow clone the content of the obsoleted record(s) into a 
clin_root_item that belongs to the correct patient, but the user 
navigation could be tricky - might you want some sort of "memorizing" 
of the particular entry (or entries) that were obsoleted under 
patient A, and then navigate to Patient B, select the most suitable 
health_issue and choose a function to copy the content obsoleted from 
patient A into new rows for patient B?