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Re: [Gnumed-devel] modification request: display of DOB and Gender
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] modification request: display of DOB and Gender |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:13:26 +0100 |
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:50:51PM -0800, James Busser wrote:
> Good. I understand you were preferring to preserve real estate as much as
> possible.
Yes.
> I have one more idea. It can be very useful in phone communications or in
> other verifications to easily have available the current patient's date of
> birth.
...
> This would permit us to combine the newly reclaimed 70 pixels of width with
> the "Age" space, to provide a combination of Age + Gender + DOB, pushing
> Caveat slightly to the right if needed, to yield:
>
> YYYY-MM-DD Gender YYageMMage
>
> e.g. 1958-05-14 M 59y8m
>
> or
>
> YYageMMage Gender YYYY-MM-DD
>
> I would abbreviate Gender in this display to the first character (in many
> cases, regardless of language, this will be M or F, or rarely T).
In the world of unicode there are universally understood
symbols... A male-female combination stands for
hermaphrodite. And with a bit of creativity there's useful
symbols for tf/tm, too :-) (I use <male+female> + either of
male or female for tm or tf.
Karsten
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- [Gnumed-devel] Re: Patient screen concerns (labeling and search), (continued)
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: Patient screen concerns (labeling and search), James Busser, 2008/01/19
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Patient screen concerns (labeling and search), Karsten Hilbert, 2008/01/20
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Patient screen concerns (labeling and search), James Busser, 2008/01/20
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Patient screen concerns (labeling and search), Karsten Hilbert, 2008/01/20
- [Gnumed-devel] modification request: Name presentation (was Patient screen concerns (labeling and search)), James Busser, 2008/01/21
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] modification request: Name presentation (was Patient screen concerns (labeling and search)), Karsten Hilbert, 2008/01/22
- [Gnumed-devel] modification request: display of DOB and Gender, James Busser, 2008/01/22
- [Gnumed-devel] Gender as "required", James Busser, 2008/01/23
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gender as "required", Karsten Hilbert, 2008/01/23
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] modification request: display of DOB and Gender,
Karsten Hilbert <=
- [Gnumed-devel] minor GUI bug fix request: inconsistent space following title in name presentation, James Busser, 2008/01/21
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] minor GUI bug fix request: inconsistent space following title in name presentation, Karsten Hilbert, 2008/01/22