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[Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are looking for a field at the encounter time - we wanted to create a
massive entry space using a custom form, so the doctor/nurse can write
whatever she/he wants, and limit structured information to 5-8 fields using
option sets.


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi Marko and Rodolfo,
>
> We have a comment field available for the programinstance object. This is
> for general comments about a person in a program, a bit like a whiteboard
> that you can always see on top of the data entry form in Person Dashboard.
> This field is also limited to 255 characters, but we can extend it. We have
> a patientcomment object that is referenced in programinstance.
>
> Would this meet your needs or you need to have a comment per program stage
> instance (encounter/visit)?
>
> I guess we could link to a patientcomment from programstageinstance as
> well, and this way make comments available per stage instance?
>
> Ola
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> On 29 April 2013 21:02, Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi - just to echo on Marko's comment: PSI is also considering the use of
>> a large, free text field, for doctor/ nurse to write free text observations
>> that we don't need to quantify, but we want to capture, so DHIS can work as
>> a light electronic health record. We will try Knut's suggestion on the mean
>> time.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Marko,
>>>
>>> we could consider it - the only problem is that we have chosen the
>>> approach of using one column for all types of values. Most values are short
>>> numbers and using text as column type over varchar with fixed length
>>> implies a performance penalty. I am not sure how significant that overhead
>>> is with latest versions of postgresql/mysql. We could check it out. I guess
>>> you could do like Knut suggests for now and change the column type manually.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> Lars
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Marko David Garcia <
>>> markodavidgm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi friends, in the table patientdatavalue the field value is
>>>> varchar(255).
>>>>
>>>> Is possible change this field to a bigger type?
>>>>
>>>> We need insert long descriptions in this field.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cordialmente,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Ing. Marko David Garcia M.
>>>> *
>>>> *Área de Sistemas integrados de Información
>>>> Secretaría de Salud Departamental del Cauca
>>>>
>>>> *
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