Re: [Gnumed-devel] Ian's SOAP widget - RFE/AOE

[Jim Busser]

> > I'm not clear on the distinction between RFE and Subjective and AOE 
> > and
> > assessment (at least, I'm not sure there's enough difference to 
> > warrant
> > typing the same stuff twice)

So far, I am thinking as follows:

RFE serves
- as something like "chief complaint" (for patient-initiated 
visits/encounters)
- as an indicator of the purpose or aim of the visit (for 
doctor-initiated visits/encounters)

The Soap note contains more-extensive *details* that one would not 
bother to capture in the RFE as this is the purpose of the Soap 
narrative row.

AOE serves
- as a working diagnosis until it is appropriate to assign a code
- even after the code is assigned, it can hold some nuance or detail 
not provided for in the coding table