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| Introduction
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. |
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*Name: Name of the consult. This can be like
Eye examination or Progression of Cataract.
*Sex: Select the applicable gender for the Consult; accordingly the consult is then available either for Male or Female or for Both genders. Specialty: The drop-down list displays list of Physicians to whom the consult can be referred. It is required that the Consult be refered to a Physician with the selected specialty. Note: 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 will 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. 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: The option when selected considers the Consult as 'Active' else 'Inactive'. The system considers only active consults for scheduling as part of Protocols. Action buttons save: a click on the save button either creates a new record if not existing or updates the changes in an existing record. delete: a click on the delete button invokes a prompt to confirm deletion of record. The system deletes the record if the ok button is clicked. reset: a click on reset button reverts the field values to the last saved changes. *Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory. |
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| Protocol | |
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