Re: [Gnumed-devel] Medications plugin - columns

[Busser, Jim]

On 2012-09-06, at 2:13 PM, Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 11:13:40PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:
> 
>> Presently *absent* from the display are the columns
>> 
>>      Preparation (helpful to here specify the use of an unbranded "long 
>> acting" form)
>> 
>>      Aim (helpful to remind what explanation if any we gave the patient as 
>> for the Aim).
> 
> True.
> 
>> requiring me to fake-edit each medication in the list in order to view this 
>> information.
> 
> Is it not provided in the tooltip ?

Ah, that is so, but all the same there is value to be able to glance (without 
having to inspect each tooltip) down a column, even without it displaying the 
entirety of the content, just to easily spot which items do contain *any* 
value, and which do not.

The use case is ensuring that a patient has been (is being provided) adequate 
information. It would be much better to see whether instructions are missing, 
than to carefully parse the text of the tooltips and/or  to generate and 
inspect a patient instruction sheet printout, only to *then* find that it is 
missing items.

-- Jim