Re: [Gnumed-devel] How within GNUmed to use coding e.g. capturing the fact and state of current pregnancies (?)

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 01:19:40PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> but what the patient *claims* to be (and what the doctor
> records to be) the reason for the visit is sometimes
> affected by what will net the patient the lowest
> out-of-pocket charges, on account of some care being
> 'covered' and other care 'not'. Even if the entries were to
> be made 'consistently' there is a problem in that the same
> biological state is being entered under two different codes
> within the same coding system. Ugh!

One might consider documenting both codes.

> Does there exist any 'best way forward' ?

I don't understand the problem.

Karsten
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