Re: [Gnumed-devel] patient search functionality revisited

[Elizabeth Dodd]

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On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 11:57 am, Ian Haywood wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 19:06:26 +1100
>
> Horst Herb <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 23:56, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > > Same in Thailand. Are you saying nickname use is so prominent
> > > in Australia that Australian docs will want to be able to type
> > > the nickname to pull up the record at the time the patient
> >
> > Yes. If you shout their "legal" name into the waiting room, chances are
> > they either don't react at all or it takes some time to realize that it
> > is "them". Many use their nick name literally to exclusion.
>
> The situation I was worried about was the reverse: patients who, at data
> entry, give their nickname, so a search on their legal name fails. One
> solution would be to flag common nicknames at data entry.
>
> (Having said that, some younger Australians take it one step further. They
> are named at birth by what is traditionally considered a nickname
> i.e a nickname *is* their legal name! "Faye" (= Faith) and "Cilla" (=
> Priscilla) are two examples from my graduating class.)
>
> The search function should, as a last step, try swapping known nicknames
> with proper names, or vice  versa, to find a match.
>
> Ian
Currently we want to see the health insurance card, because we have to have 
that name on the prescriptions.
I still get pathology back for Giovanni who turns out to be John on our 
database. When we finally see the insurance card he will be Giovanni; but 
only his mother calls him that.
so they use an English version of their other language name - how ill we catch 
these guys?
Liz
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