Re: [Gnumed-devel] clinicians: coding use case survey - please respond !

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:04:56PM -0300, Rogerio Luz wrote:

> > #--------------------------------------------------------
> > Patient A has health issue "COPD". Patient B also has
> > health issue "COPD".
> >
> > I discover in patient A that there is a wrong/missing code
> > for "COPD". I correct/add that code.
> >
> > I would expect patient B to now *also* automatically have
> > the added/corrected code for "COPD":
> >
> >        no
> >       comment
> >
> I would NOT expect the program to try to GUESS anything from the patient's
> history to make auto-coding, it is responsibility of the physician to put
> the code and he is therefore responsible for its correctness

GNUmed would not guess, it would execute user expectations
(except that you don't have this expectation - which is
exactly why I am asking).

GNUmed would display the same codes for each COPD episode,
courtesy of the user having associated codes with the term
"COPD" *anywhere* previously. Conversely, if the association
is modified anywhere it will display as modified everywhere,
automatically. This would happen courtesy of the table
structure without GNUmed doing anything specific about it.

Karsten
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