Re: Looking for help on creating progress notes for patients

In article <1157046801.629833.166430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"mastrLock" <treve03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Wondering if anyone might be able to help me with a project I want to
set up for creating progress notes for a group of mentally challenged
patients I work with.

I am trying to set up a database and be able to print progress notes on
them after each visit. I was thinking if I had a database of their
medications, diagnosis and such then I could use filemaker to help me
create a progress note. The areas of the note could have drop down
lists for any of the short texts that would need to be placed within
the note.

Note might look something like this:

Progress Note 08/31/06

John Doe Length of visit:___________

Subjective:


Objective:


Meds:

1. zoloft 50mg qd 2. Seroquel 50mg qhs
3. blah blah blah 4. yadda yadda yadda



Dx:
Axis I: mood disorder
Axis II: whatever
Axis III: whatever


Plan:



Signature:

Give this some thought:

Two tables, Patient and Visit.

Patient table has fields for the "permanent" patient info, such as name,
address, birthdate, current prescriptions, emergency contact, etc, and a
unique identifier field kpPatientID which is a computer-generated serial
number unique to each patient.

Visit Table has a unique serial kpVisitID, a number field kfPatientID,
date of visit, fields for specific items you want to track for each
visit, and a Notes or Remarks field for general text such as progress
notes.

Relationship:

Patient::kpPatientID = Visit::kfPatientID

Allow creation of Visit records via the relationship.

Put a portal to Visit in a layout of the Patient table, with such fields
in the portal so as to give a quick view of the last few visits by that
patient, and a navigation pushbutton to take you to the related Visit
records.

All of which can be suitably refined and expanded beyond this skeletal
description.

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