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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographics name 'Remove' not working (and other imp
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Busser, Jim |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Demographics name 'Remove' not working (and other improvements) |
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Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:33:20 +0000 |
On 2011-11-26, at 1:06 PM, Jim Busser wrote:
> - relabel the button from 'Clone and Edit' to 'edit'
> - relabel the resulting window title
> - add a checkbox (default on)
>
> [ ] keep listed a copy of the original names / spelling
Oops, I only now noted in the audit schema the deliberate omission of names. Is
that the best approach, to insist that all versions of names (even
misspellings) be preserved?
I can understand how, in the event of a patient's name being spelt differently
(even incorrectly) at a lab, it may be important to replicate and preserve such
"mistakes" in the praxis in order to assist matching. However, there is a
downside to *requiring* to keep incorrect spellings, namely that when miskeying
search terms, you are going to find patients who match the miskeyed search term
while missing the patients who did not possess this miskeyed term.
For example if I have two patients in the praxis
Smith, Charles DOB Dec 12, 1954
Smith, Charles DOB Dec 12, 1964
and if the second one had been created as
Smoth, Charles DOB Dec 12, 1964
since corrected to
Smith, Charles DOB Dec 12, 1964
then when I search
Smoth, C
and when I get
Smith, Charles DOB Dec 12, 1964
I have missed to find
Smith, Charles DOB Dec 12, 1954
and I risk to mis-select the person I matched. I would rather be shown no
matches but would accept to keep misspelt names where these actually served a
purpose.
That is why I would offer a slight adjustment to my proposal:
rename the Clone and edit button to Edit
remove the proposed checkbox (the one whether to keep, or discard, the
old name)
--> this way, the old name is kept by default
BUT
add Names to Audit
enable the Remove button provided we add a confirmation dialog in which
it is pointed out that the old name is important to keep if it would be a name
that was used by any outside systems like in lab results.
??
-- Jim