In VistA are problems intended to be symptoms/complaints or a diagnosis. For example, suppose a patient presents with memory loss and dementia. Would a physician create two problems as follows:
Memory Loss - 780.93
Dementia - 294.8
And then later replace these with an actual diagnosis (lets say Alzheimer's Disease)? Or should the capture of symptoms/complaints occur in the notes? It would be great if somebody could walk through this example in VistA...
Thanks,
Marc
