Never-ending doubts

martakaczorek wrote on Tuesday, October 22, 2013:

First - I’d like to thank everyone for their feedback to date, you are incredibly helpful, and I have some more questions :

  • w/PCP & obgyn - here PCP will mean Primary Care Physician ?

  • “past due”, as in:

Past Due Interval (Clinical Reminders)
Past Due Interval (Patient Reminders)
Soon Due Interval (Clinical Reminders)
Soon Due Interval (Patient Reminders)

when a reminder has a ‘past due’ status - does it mean that it should have been sent at some point in the past and sb failed to send it, so it should be sent again?

  • a patient reminder is sent to a patient, a clinical reminder is sent to whom?

  • in race/ethnicity:

what is the difference between : ‘other – specified’ and ‘specified’ - is it the same?
unspecified - means a patient didn’t specify his race or that doctors cannot tell his race…
withheld - means this info is confidential?

*PG acronym in procedure units – does it mean pregnant? Somehow it doesn’t match the "units’ context

  • ‘result abnormal’ - means the results seem abnormal as in maybe there was a mistake during lab tests and the test should be repeated" or “abnormal” because it exceeds the norms and the patient might be seriously ill

*procedure - what types of actions does it encompass in OpenEMR? exams/labs tests/surgeries/ health checks?

*test scheduling - it’s a type of a doctor’s patient note - does it mean “we need to schedule tests” or “test scheduling is pending”?

*placeholder - is it a person or sth to do with IT/programming - (in Placeholder Maintains empty ACLs)

*reminder intervals : e.g. warning 2 weeks, past due – one month - how should I interpret it - that a warning should be sent once 2 weeks before an event or everyday for 2 weeks before an event?; and past due (if it means that a patient didn’t show up) - should be sent 1 month after an event once? or everyday for a month? that’s really confusing, given I have never experienced a medical service with patient reminders…(feeling sad…)

*alert - reminder - warning - which is sent to whom? just in a nutshell - I just need to understand the basic difference to illustrate it in Polish equivalents

thank you in advance

blankev wrote on Tuesday, October 22, 2013:

It looks like you activated the IPPF module. If you do not do devilvery and anti-conception as daily base “encounters” I would inactivate the module.

Remember this are questions the IPPF developer had in mind writing the software for IPPF

w/GP & GYN is with General Practitioner and Gynecologist

When consulting for pregnancy there is a Conception date usually 2 weeks after first day of last menstruation and the is a calculated delivery date. This is the due date. Before that calculation is the Pre-Delivery date after the calculated dat is Past due date. SO there is even a period that was concerned as an entrance to take measures if the Due date is to be passed and delivery is after the calculated date.

If past due is referring to an appointment, the patient is late for the appointment or is forgotten the appointment

bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, October 23, 2013:

Hi Marta,

To help future translators, please feel free to add your new found answers to the following wiki page:
http://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/English_Constants_Descriptions

-brady
OpenEMR