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Using History view as flowsheet

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asears

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Hello-

I'm currently trying to use the history view as a flowsheet for the physical therapy department. They are trying to make their exercise flowsheets electronic. When I tried creating a PT flowsheet, I couldn't find a way to document the resistance, sets, reps, and time for each exercise without taking up four rows. There are 41 exercises, so that would end up too long.

Instead I pasted a table in the history view where the resistance, sets, reps, and time were all columns under a date and then the exercises are on the left as rows.

I have two questions:

1) I seem limited by how far I can scroll to the right, which is limiting me to only 4 days worth of data. Is there a way to get around this so I can have at least 7-8 days worth?

2) For the dates I entered:

{LASTOBSDATETIME('FUNCT EXER1')}

where FUNCT EXER1 is the first exercise option and will always be filled out if exercises are done. I'm not sure how to alter the MEL to obtain previous dates where observation values were recorded so it can act similarly to the flowsheet. I want to see all of the exercises that were done from the past view visits in this flowsheet.

If this won't work, what do others do for electronic physical therapy flowsheets?

Thanks!

Posted : July 30, 2014 6:55 am

joeg1962

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OK, just pondering this, so no real code.

Assuming that you have identified several OBS codes to hold the various exercises.

If you are choosing specific OBS for each, for instance OBS = "PT Leg1", then you will pass four variables. However, if using generic type such as "PT Ex01", then you will pass five variables for each.

Thus, have four/five input areas:

Exercise (if applicable, not stored unique): Leg01, Leg02, Arm01,...

Resistance: 1, 2, 5, 10, ... pounds

Reps: 10,15, ...

Sets: 1,2,3, ...

Time: xx:xx

Then make a button to read those document variables, and format to an OBS term and write to the OBS term. Thus, you might create an OBSVALUE looking like:

Leg01/2/10/2/12:53

Looking weird when stored, but readable.

And, you could write some processes to de-compose the packed data field into the original five fields.

Does that make sense?

Posted : July 30, 2014 10:57 pm

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