Re: [Gnumed-devel] a requirement for appointments

[Syan Tan]

occasionally you need to see what's happening to a patient who you have only seen once

or twice for , so you don't remember their name, but you remember their age, and the

condition you saw them for , and you know they were seen about x days ago, and

they are in the appointments history.  You could specifically search for them if you

have an easily searchable emr system, using something like a query by example,

( it might be difficult to expect users to search using SQL),  but a convenient way

to find them is to browse back on the appointment books, and see their age and

the diagnosis they were seen for , in order to find them.



On Wed Jun 21 2:21 , Sebastian Hilbert sent:

> On Wednesday 21 June 2006 02:09, Syan Tan wrote:
> > appointments that have been seen should be viewable with the age of the
> > patient and the decided diagnosis , in order for backtracking and followup
> > in the appointments columns. this is in addition to actively marking the
> > patient for followup during the consultation because sometimes you think
> > back, and wonder why the patient wasn't marked for follow up. 
> What do you mean by 'appointments that have been seen' ? Some sort of 
> nightly 'patient seen list'
>
> I can follow you that sometimes we wonder why patient wasn't scheduled for 
> follow up. But how do we detect those. Only when the patient comes in without 
> an appointment instead of a follow up appointment. 
>
> How does the decided daignosis and age of the patient aid you in understanding 
> why the patient hasn't been marked for follow up ?
>
> Just curious about the context you see this in.
>
> -- 
> Sebastian Hilbert 
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