Re: [Health] Revised Cardiac Risk Index: Score and RCRI Class calculated fields accepting data input

[Luis Falcon]

Hi Ronald !

On 19/07/2013 11:12, ronald munjoma wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Note: I do not have any medical background.
>
> I have made an observation on the Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI) 
> page, which can be accessed from the Patient Menu, related actions, RCRI.
>
> The Score and RCRI Class look like calculated fields, with values auto 
> filed when you click/choose conditions. Are these fields not supposed 
> to be read only? Right now I can manually fill values in the two 
> fields without selecting any conditions.
Yes. You are right Ronald !

The main thing is that if we decide to make this fields totally 
dependant of the other fields, sometimes we can get a result that does 
not have the other variables . For example :

- BMI 27
- Family Functionality Score 6
- Neonatal APGAR 9
- ..

On the technical side, fields of type on_change_with or on_change are 
taken  from the client, so if you make them readonly, they won't be 
saved. But we can find a way around that.

So, we have to find a balance between flexibility and functionality. 
What we should prevent is to have an erroneous value when all the fields 
have been completed. ( for example, if  a patient weight is entered as 
60 kg, and the height is 160 cm , the __only__ possible value for BMI 
must be 23.44 ). In other words, for these type of fields, we can enter 
an non-computed value in the result __only__ if one ore more of the 
variables are missing.

What do you  think ?

Best,

> Regards and thanks
> Ronald Munjoma
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