Re: [Gnumed-devel] Menu item Correspondence > Write letter

[Jim Busser]

As may be surmised, I am playing quite a bit with the placeholders and what 
they output into the reports.

When I think of

        S - O - A - P notes

I would consider and expect the

        A ssessment

to contain the kind of narrative that is deliberately user-inputted into this 
kind of row. However, there is another kind of content which gets inputted into 
narrative rows (also recorded as row type 'a') and the latter result in quite a 
few interspersed rows which communicate

        Date    Provider          (row type)    Narrative

        date1   LMcC             a              Episode: <foo>
        date2   LMcC             a              Episode: <bar>
        date3   LMcC             a              Episode: <fu>
        date4   LMcC             a              Episode: <tomaki>
        date5   LMcC             a              Episode: <phou>
        date6   LMcC             a              Episode: <etc>
        date7   LMcC             a              Episode: <etc>
        date8   LMcC             a              Episode: <etc>

which disrupt brain-parsing of what is going on with the patient.

To this point, I have not put that many notes into GNUmed, so maybe I am 
missing some other function that these (rather duplicative-seeming) rows need 
to serve.

More specifically, if it is necessary that they be marked of row type 'a' 
instead of null? Do we lose anything if we would in future make such rows of 
type 'null' instead of 'a' ? This way, they could still be selected (when 
desired) to be included in a 'dump' of rows by including, in the placeholder 
argument

        '::soap //'

the space. That would afford all such rows (plus those that would be considered 
administrative) to be included in the output.

??

-- Jim