Re: [Gnumed-devel] overview

[Busser, Jim]

On 2011-12-09, at 7:38 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> I have added procedures.
> 
> It begs the question how to best sort this list.


I take it you are talking

        within and among procedures
        within and among history, active problems etc?

There is an argument to present the items in some kind of time order. Doing so 
as a general approach, across all types of items (where applicable) would 
ignore that the EMR tree allows a custom order of display. Some specifics...

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Among the available time orders, should it be clin_when or modified_when?

- I would suggest clin_when, because if I enter something today that describes 
health 10 years ago the item is more clinically meaningful to be located 
relative to the items that occurred immediately before and after 

- the fact that I only just today created this item is important to *somewhere* 
be able to identify, which is what I suggest is covered off by the EMR Journal

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Among clin_when, should most oldest sort at the top with newest at the bottom? 
This would be most 'conventional'. One concern is that newer problems may be 
out of view and require scrolling, but this is helped if

        Clinically relevant but inactive

gets moved down into the History section.
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What should be the formatting of the items in question?

I would suggest

YYYY.MM <item name>
YYYY        <item name> (where there is no month, such as PHx item entered by 
age)

-- Jim