Re: Fwd: fields in health issues (was Re: [Gnumed-devel] NEW TOPIC - FEATURES)

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:21:54PM -0300, Rogerio Luz wrote:

> Sure it would be great...
> 
> But for smoking status a "cleaner" way would be 3 boxes you could just click
> ... sorry I don´t have the ccomputer talk to explain it ... like those boxes
> you click when you are installing a program and have to "accecpt" the terms
> and conditions ... uderstand?
> 
> Or could it be a module? So if I installed it, I could choose to make
> everybody be FORCED - or not -  to click on one of them before opening a new
> patient?

For that you can use the hooks framework.

> It is a major drawback in some Family Practisioners to FORGET to ask that
> question...
> 
> Somewhere very visible would be awsome :)))

You mean like a tag ?

> - just remembering the face of
> some students when you ask them about smoking status of a varicous patient
> :)
> 
> BUT I guess we could make it a Health Issue ... I was just wondering if we
> couldn´t get it to appear while editing EVERY SINGLE episode / Health Issue
> - something like putting a tag on the name or the likes :)

This could indeed be solved with a tag for the smoking status.

Karsten



> > On 12-Aug-08, at 1:57 PM, Rogerio Luz wrote:
> >
> > > What I see is a field in the Health Issue field where we could just click
> >> on
> >> > (smoking status: never, past, current) and a OB/Gyn field (infant,
> >> fertile,
> >> > menopaused, number of births / normal delivery / C sections / Abortions
> >> )
> >>
> >> Not sure what you mean here ?
> >>
> >> Karsten
> >>
> >
> > Sorry ... it was to be what I would like to see in the future is ... "a
> > field in the Health Issue ... etc.."
> >
> >
> > This is sounding like pre-populating the "health issues" with a variety of
> > specific items some or all of which may be determinable to be non-issues.
> >
> > I know that the GNUmed design plans, but did not yet implement, for any
> > clinical SOAP row, to be able to be keyed/coded (I forget the precise term)
> > to one or more classification entries e.g. ICD9, Read, Snomed etc
> >
> > Perhaps a single health issue row "Risk factor assessment" could include
> > some ascertainment of multiple areas (smoking, alcohol, IV drug use,
> > high-risk sexual activity) with any desired details captured in the
> > narrative and any notable responses codable onto these rows. Any positive
> > items could be promoted to an independent health issue when circumstances
> > warranted.
> >
> > Would that work?
> >

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