[Gnumed-devel] Re: family history edit area

[richard terry]

The comment line relates to the disease the family person had which is 
sometimes useful 

eg if your father had a myocardial infarction and smoked as a contributary 
factor then this would go in the comment line and could sway ones decisions 
if say dealing with a non smoking patient who may possibly be less likely to 
get his Ihd at the same age etc.

Progress notes I added to all the edit areas, probably more useful in some 
than others. I didn't use this feature in all the edit areas in my original 
program but in theory it is useful, eg under the script edit area when having 
prescribed a new medication one can add the note eg. Told to return in 1 week 
for review of BP, when prescribed a new medication say. Good for medicolegal 
oriented comments as well.  I can think of say in FH of bowel cancer in 
parent, one could add 'significance of this explained - understands must have 
colonoscopies etc etc.

If one collects progress notes across all areas of the program as one goes and 
does tasks, there is very little specific stuff to put in elsewhere often, 
unless one is dealing with a complex problem.

Cause of death as checkbox ?

Well perhaps. A difficult one I guess, we don't always know, should be have 
yes, no, uncertain???


Regards

On Wed, 21 May 2003 09:37 pm, you wrote:
> Richard,
>
> shouldn't the "caused death" field be a check box ?
>
> What's the difference between "comment" and "progress notes" ?
>
> Karsten