Re: [Gnumed-devel] How should / shall an EMR handle group visits?

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 03:51:34PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> "Group visits" are a type of encounter in which more than
> one patient (not from the same family) agrees to be seen by
> the doctor many-to-on (instead of one on one), for purposes
> which may include:
> 
> - education about a particular disease

I would use a script to document that in each patient's chart.

> - education about a treatment (e.g. surgery) that has been booked

Should this not be one-on-one ?

> or which is available

I don't think this qualifies as healthcare.

> - getting questions answered; I suppose the questions may,
> in some cases, express what has been going on with their own
> individual cases, where the patients choose to make this
> disclosure to the rest of the group.

I would document that in the patient's chart.

Karsten
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