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A web framework for building highly usable healthcare applications.
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Antimicrobial display on the table #95

Closed wai2k closed 11 years ago

wai2k commented 11 years ago

Wouldn't it be better just to show the day that the patient is on.. Ie. Day 3 Amikacin rather than Amikacin dd/mm - dd/mm.

My brain needs to do the calculation when he computer can do it for me

michaeledwardmarks commented 11 years ago

My initial thought is that it might work for drugs that the patient is still receiving but is not so helpful for previous antibiotics - we intend to use this to track prescription history in order to guide micro advice and there it is more helpful to see something like: 22/5-27/5: Co-Amoxicoav 29/5-31/5: Pip-Taz 2/6-:Meropenem

wai2k commented 11 years ago

Perhaps the current antibiotics can use the number of days

Previous antibiotics can show the dates it was stopped and how long the patient was on it?

GabPoll commented 11 years ago

Both formats suggested are good. It depends a bit where the information is going to be displayed. On list view we'd want the shortest form, possibly only of current antibiotics. In single patient view, with full width of the screen, one can foresee a tabular format, with columns for a) start date, b) stop date and c) total duration of antibiotic (to help people who can't easily subtract stop date from start date!)

wai2k commented 11 years ago

How about this?

antimicrobials

drcjar commented 11 years ago

looks cool

nice example of intuitive display of data

michaeledwardmarks commented 11 years ago

I'm not sure that is such a clear way of showing previous drugs - especially when we start considering patients who have had multiple overlapping courses of antibiotics. I think it will also be problematic if you have a long admission working out what -23 or -43 actually means.

Personally I find dates much easier to follow especially in prolonged admissions, overlapping courses and drugs started after admission.

wai2k commented 11 years ago

Good point. I wonder though whether on the 'initial' screen this might work and then when you click it takes to you a different view where the overlapping antibiotics courses can be plotted on a timeline. That would make it much easier to visualise. Anyhow, this is not essential for the MVP.

However, in terms of 'working out' what -23 actually means the same problem arises when you have to work what 22/1-25/1 actually means when today is 23/2 for example.

Agree though, my initial proposed solution is not quite elegant enough for prev antibiotic courses.

davidmiller commented 11 years ago

nice example of intuitive display of data

You say that but.... ... I have no idea what it means at all. Whereas I do understand the date-based system of representing time.

@wai2k Timeline for antibiotics sounds like an entirely plausible and sensible idea for a single episode detail view.

@all is there consensus that Start/Stop/Drug/Dose/Route is the best option we currently have for list display?

michaeledwardmarks commented 11 years ago

I think current fine. Especially if we do #170