Re: [Gnumed-devel] notebooked progress note editor

[Karsten Hilbert]

> There's just one thing I don't really understand - why are
> the notebook-tabs labeled "new episode" instead of something
> like "new encounter on 09/May/2005"
All tabs only ever belong to the current encounter. They are
transient, eg a tool to add progress notes to the episode
given in the label for the current encounter. For existing
episodes you'll notice the last-seen date in the problem list
on the left (now improved to "05/2005 diabetes (health
issue)".

"New episode" is just a dummy for lack of better words in
those cases where we need a progress note editor but do not
yet know the episode it will belong to.

> Doesn't each SOAP-note hold informations from one single
> encounter ?
Yes, and for the current one only as far as that goes. Hence
the date is not needed. In fact, all tabs belong to the same
encounter, namely the current one, even though they stand for
different episodes.

> Even if you want to show the episode the encounter belongs
> to, wouldn't it make sense to add some information to identify
> the encounter ?
No. as it is the current encounter.

We don't *edit* *previous* progress notes with this. In fact
we don't edit progress notes at all (currently) - typos, warts
and all. We only *add* *new* progress notes. Always for the
current encounter - for the episode named in the label/first
line.

Karsten
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