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Re: [Gnumed-devel] recording allergy details
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richard terry |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] recording allergy details |
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Mon, 7 Apr 2003 07:41:21 +1000 |
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Karsten,
Could I make a suggestion that perhaps you are working back to front here. We
Really need to start on a clinical section. However (see note below) as we
have no drug database, all you really need to display in this window,
remembering a person can have multiple allergies, is the class name or if
null, the substance eg eggs
Perhaps prior to recalling the data should be starting from the Allergy
section and doing the data entry, defining what we need there, saving it back
to the database and recalling it. However once again NO DRUG DATABASE means
the whole thing falls over.
Remember that much of the internals of allergy handling is done by the program
tansparently to the user. Most of the time we will be using a class code
clinked to the drug database, occasional linking to drug/disease database,
and occasionally in vaccination section eg egg allergy.
To go over your fields and relate these to the current input allergy wigit:
Wigit Date = date noted (the program obviously records date recorded)
Wigit Search=type in here e.g trade name of drug. (Currently needs a beter
name? Brand??I don't really know what to suggest)
This internally then brings in the generic name(s) (really important as many
allergies even within a class can be generic specific) and the drug class,
class codes etc
Aternatively you could search on generic (and the field above Search?name
Brand etc) may then be null) but this is searched from the database and the
user should not be allowed to enter any permanant free text here
Wigit Class is automatically put in by the system. I don't think users should
be allowed to edit this - it is visually important and educational
The Allergy/Sensitivity/Definate radio buttons/check boxes are already there
On this basis I'd make these comments.
For Display on the top bar you really only need the sustance eg
Penicilins,macrolides,eggs!
When I get to work I'll mail you my allergy table which records its data from
my drug source - MIMS, and put in a couple of allergies one with multiple
susbstances to show what the screen looks like.
Richard
On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 11:59 pm, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> I am trying to attach the allergies field in the top pane to
> the backend. For that I need a table to pull the data from.
> For that, in turn, we need a table recording allergy details.
> Allergies is one of the known concepts so we need not resort
> to a generic table.
>
> Clinically, am I missing something import if we have the
> following fields:
>
> substance
> - the thing the patient reacted to
> - not necessarily the allergenic ingredient
> - say "Vomex Ratiopharm"
>
> allergene
> - the exact substance that cause the allergy if
> known
> - possibly just one of many ingredients
>
> description
> - free text description of reaction
>
> certainty (better name needed)
> - definate/likely
>
> reaction type
> - allergy/sensitivity
>
> first observed
> - if available
>
> code
> - if applicable
> - ATC for penicilin
> - NULL for cat's hair
>
> And of course the usual suspects such as recorded-when,
> recorded-by-whom, id, id_identity, etc.
>
> If no code is recorded or applicable a string matching search
> can be done against substance and allergene.
>
> Comments please.
>
> Karsten