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Re: [Health] ICD - Search by Disease Synonyms


From: Cédric Krier
Subject: Re: [Health] ICD - Search by Disease Synonyms
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 09:12:41 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)

On 2016-05-18 09:39, Khurram Shahzad wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> While entering the main condition in evaluation of a patient, the doctors
> often come across a situation when they are unable to find the diseases in
> the preloaded ICD.
> 
> For example, an ENT Specialist was searching for the disease "Juvenile
> Angiofibroma" and failed to find it as it never existed in ICD.
> 
> After searching the internet, it was revealed that "Juvenile Angiofibroma"
> is an approximate synonym for "Benign neoplasm of nasopharynx (code D10.6)".
> 
> The frequency of this issue is reasonably high. Can anybody suggest on how
> to resolve this issue? Is there anyway that we can attach all the
> "approximate synonyms" of every disease classified in the ICD in GNU Health?

I think the best will be to add a Text field containing all synonyms
(one per line for example). I think it is important to use a column of
the table and not a One2Many relation because the goal is to search and
Text field will prevent a big join. (Later when Tryton will have
support, fulltext search could be added).

> Same is the case with Signs and Symptoms (and probably the Procedures).
> 
> Moreover, we are unable to search for the diseases using the Code.

This is a matter to override the search_rec_name to search on both
field (and on the new Text field).

-- 
Cédric Krier - B2CK SPRL
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