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I have a provider who recently decided that he wanted to see the patients Current Problem List in the patients PMH. To achieve this he has been using a quick text to insert PROB_AFTER into the edit box on the PMH-PSH-CCC form. This pulls in the problem list with ICD codes. Which in my opinion looks sloppy (Not to mention the quick text he uses contains a header which he has been leaving in the PMH). Fortunately this provider does have a scribe so after discussing this with them the scribe is going to manually remove the ICD codes, header and any acute conditions after the PROB_AFTER quick text has been inserted.
They have been told however by a moderator on a scribe forum that there should be a way to automate this process. I am not aware of a way to automate chronic conditions into the PMH.
Does anyone have a workflow suggestion that would be better than having the scribe clean up the quick text they are currently using to get these problems into the PMH??
Posted : August 31, 2017 1:15 am
I would think the solution is to modify your quicktext to NOT include the ICD codes. Essentially store the active problems into an array, and then only list the problem-text item.
Look at PROB_AFTER command with arrays.
I have a quicktext .probtext defined as:
{global prbl = getfield(PROB_AFTER("list"),"\r","")
global probsize = size(prbl)
global probicd = ""
for cnt = 1, cnt < probsize, cnt = cnt + 1
do
icddlm =match(prbl[cnt],"(")
if icddlm > 0 then
prb_d = sub(prbl[cnt],1,icddlm - 2)
probicd = probicd + prb_d
endif
endfor
probicd
}
creates output like:
DIABETES MELLITUS TYPE II
SCREENING FOR PULMONARY TB
CHRONIC PAIN: OPIOID-REQUIRING
DYSPNEA
CHEST PAIN
PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA
SECONDARY DIABETES MELLITUS WITH RENAL MANIFESTATIONS, UNCONTROLLED
HTN, CONTROLLED ON MEDICATION
Hope that helps.
Joe Gillis
Posted : August 31, 2017 2:56 am
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I don't have any experience with arrays so thank you for providing that code!! It works as expected and will definitely save the scribe some time as he cleans up the output.
Posted : August 31, 2017 7:16 am
