Re: [Gnumed-devel] how and when to select encounter type

[Ian Haywood]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 02:10:45 +0100
Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:

> Another approach would be to delay asking for the type of
> encounter until something get's written to the patient's
> clinical (?) record. The question arises whether that's
> sufficient and whether we'd want to record "administrative"
> encounters as such as well (say, the patient just comes in to
> change her address details). 
I think reads should be logged (for a number of reasons)
> avoid creating an encounter when just looking up some data,
> say, revisiting a stored referral report for memory jogging.
But, no, IMHO an "encounter" at least implies soome clinical decision (however 
trivial) 
otherwise the record will quickly fill with excessive records.

Ian

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