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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Possible failure of GNUmed to void duplicate values o


From: Karsten Hilbert
Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] Possible failure of GNUmed to void duplicate values on a key
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 23:46:10 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 05:21:47PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> BTW  I have a related further idea / request / suggestion… I can put this 
> into a Launchpad feature request, if desired…
> 
> Here is what had happened … sitting next to me had been the paper chart of a 
> new patient who I had believed myself to have created yesterday. He is a 
> patient whose name I did not retain very well… an eastern european name of 
> the form
> 
>       Bond … ski, Walter (goes by Wally)
> 
> however the ergonomics of my workspace are poor -- I cannot have the computer 
> and paper chart side by side -- and so, in the search box, I had mistyped
> 
>       Bod, Wal
> 
> and got no matches. Human error, yes, but one that risks to create problems 
> in patient care, because I then went on to create a duplicate, relative to 
> the patient who *already* existed, spelt
> 
>       Bond… Walter
> 
> Here is my idea … in the new patient creation window, before proceeding to 
> commit the inputted data and create a new patient,
> 
> - can the middleware check whether the lastname, first initial, and date of 
> birth already exist?

You do realize that this would not have prevented your above case ?

Is your suggestion deliberately intended to ignore gender ?

Karsten
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