Topics Consults Search:  
A physician would be referring the patient to a specialist for various reasons as a part of routine check-up. This could depend on the age, sex, medical history of the patient.s This master defines the possible list of consults. This list will depend on the clinic specialty.

Name: Name of the consult. This can be like Eye examination or Progression of Cataract.

Specialty: The above specified Consult needs to referred to a Physician with this selected specialty. Note that in the above example we define two Consults, both of whom need to referred to an Opthalmologist. On changing a specialty, the list of preferred doctors changes.

Pref. Doctor: A list of referring Doctors with the above selected specialty is shown here. One of the referring Doctors can be selected to a default / preferred Doctor. During an encounter when a letter is to be selected for a Consult, if applicable, it wil be marked by default to his preferred Doctor. Of course the user will have the flexibility to change the referring Doctor before sending out the letter.

Template: Encounter Letter outs are generated on Progress Notes based Template. Select the default Template to be used while generating a Consult letter.

Active: If the Consult is Active or Inactive. The system considers only active consults for scheduling as part of Protocols.
  See Also:
  Protocols