Tobin, I am still not exactly sure I understand what you are trying to do... Do you want a dropdown list of potential classes of referral locations (hospital, clinic, district hospital, etc.) or specific locations (Hospital A, Hospital B, etc.)? We actually thought that it would be a good idea to be able to use the same location function that draws coded locations for the encounter, and be able to use these for this field. However, as you suggest, there should be flags on the location table which restrict which appear for which context of use. For xforms, it was possible to remove inappropriate entries from the dropdown at the time the form was deployed. I presume the same would apply to HTML forms if you loaded the locations into the form.
In the interim, we just used a text field and entered a numeric code for the facility... Andy -------------------- Andrew S. Kanter, MD MPH - Director of Health Information Systems/Medical Informatics Millennium Villages Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University - Asst. Prof. of Clinical Biomedical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology Columbia University Email: [email protected] Mobile: +1 (646) 469-2421 Office: +1 (212) 305-4842 Skype: akanter-ippnw Yahoo: andy_kanter >________________________________ > From: Tobin Greensweig <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 4:20 AM >Subject: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Referral Location > > >I am building an HTML form that a physician will fill out when referring a >patient for additional care. One of the options on this form will be "referral >to" which needs to be a fixed list of hospitals and other specialists. > > >I'm trying to decide if I should have a concept such as "refer to" with coded >answers (probably all of which would be contained in their own class) or if I >should have this concept be a text datatype then use html forms >style=location. One downside to this is that I don't really want users to be >able to select various hospitals and physician offices as the location of >other encounters. > > >What do you think makes the most sense based on everyones' experience and the >data model? > > >Thank you very much, > > >Tobin >________________________________ > Click here to unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list > > _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-implement-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l]
