2011/5/4 Karsten Hilbert
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On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:04:56PM -0300, Rogerio Luz wrote:
> > #--------------------------------------------------------
> > Patient has episode "URTI" coded to an appropriate ICD code.
> > Doctor changes episode description to "hypertension".
> >
> > I would expect any known ICD codes for "hypertension" to
> > automatically be linked to this episode:
> >
> > no
> > comment
> >
> The ICD 10 for instance has many levels of specificity,
Indeed.
> and I would like to
> leave it to the phycician to input what he/she thinks is the correct level
> for that episode.
That's the sort of thing I asked for. Now, just to make
sure: This will force you to *again* pick codes each and
every single time you name an episode "Hypertension" -
regardless of whether you've picked the very same code
twenty-thousand times before ?
(That picking can be hard or easy, we will try to make it easy.)
> A frasewheel is the way to go
Technically, it's no problem at all. I'm mainly interested
in what users expect to happen.
Yep ... you will pick that code 20 - 100 Thousand times, by the 4th time you will memorize it and it will be faster, but in NO WAY will the program be responsible for picking a code on your behalf. We can give you some hints, maybe, but it will be widely understood that it is the USER´S job to actually put the code together with the encounter.
Rogerio