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Some of our providers are not finishing their dictation in a timely manner. (We're working on this......)
So when a baby or young child comes in for an office visit at say 4 wks of age and the provider does not finish the dictation until 2 months later, the age at signing is reflected in the visit and it then says the child was 12 wks of age at that visit. Is there a setting that can be changed so that the document shows the patients age at date of service rather than date of signing??
Posted : July 22, 2015 9:05 am
Sorry I don't have an answer for changing the setting to fix the age in the visit but for providers who are constantly behind in their documentation I know my group will start blocking the schedule and will also fine providers.
Posted : July 22, 2015 9:39 am
You could save the patient's age at the time of service into an obs term and pull the obs term instead of the patient symbol you are using that gets updated when you open the visit.
Brad
Posted : July 22, 2015 9:59 am
if you are using custom forms with {PATIENT._AGEINMONTHS} symbol or some variation of that, that is likely your problem because it continues to evaluate. I would try something like {str(div(durationdays(PATIENT.DATEOFBIRTH,sub(str(document.clinicaldate),1,10)),7))} which should give you age in weeks at the documents clinical date.
Posted : July 22, 2015 10:08 am
The setting I would change is the provider's behavior. A 2 month delay in completing a notes is unacceptable and if they are submitting charges for the visits sooner than that, is a billing compliance violation as well.
Posted : July 22, 2015 11:09 am
