Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: What is SOAP - Why edit area suited to this

[Karsten Hilbert]

>>> The scratch pad is an invaluable clinician oriented memory jogger where
>>> one puts stuff which may or may not be relevant to the clinical care of
>>> the patient.
>> 1/ when the consult ends and there's stuff in the scratchpad, how is it
>> encoded in the clinical record?
> Depends what you mean  by encoded. You backend people would have more idea 
> than I. IN VB  however, in my ignorance I just had a table I called 
> data_scratchpad with a counter id, consult_id,(key to main id table 
> containing consult_id, patient_id, type, date etc.) deleted as boolean. When 
> the item was dealt with it was either flagged complete, complete with text 
> explanation, and any text was auto-recorded in the progress notes for that 
> day.
That's a perfectly valid scenario in terms of table use. The
tables aren't exactly alike but the concept stays the same.

Karsten
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