Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: family history edit area

[richard terry]

On Wednesday 21 May 2003 11:24 pm, you wrote:
> > Cause of death as checkbox ?
> > Well perhaps. A difficult one I guess, we don't always know, should be
> > have yes, no, uncertain???
>
> Ah ! OK, let's make it a comobox then ?  Or a (non-learning ?)
> phrase wheel.

A little careful here. Ok I guess as long as the combo box responds to the 
keyboard input and doesn't just need a mouse click. Reason being that in that 
situation the user should be able to type 'y' or 'no' or 'u' (uncertain) to 
autofill the  field. The other way it requires two actions - click on the 
combobox, scroll down or select the entry, then hit enter. If keyboard 
response hitting 'y' can be engineered to immediately put in 'yes', and move 
on to the next input area (1 keypress as opposed to up to 3).

Over the life of a consultation using these methods you can have an easy 
life, or stuggle with repetative key and mouse actions as poor MDW sufferers 
do in Australia as it such a badly designed program from this point of view.

Regards


>
> Karsten

> > The comment line relates to the disease the family person had which is
> > sometimes useful
>
> OK, makes sense.
>
> > 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.
>
> Absolutely. Also lends itself very well to context-specific
> auto-learning phrase wheels.
>