How do you know that the values fall into such a small set?
Domain expertise.
And you create another problem. Have you ever seen a fast DE person at work? A dropdown would slow them down considerably. The problem was someone not checking what was entered. The answer is not to slow everyone down. That does not cause the checking to get done.
Incremental search in a combobox speeds things up quite a bit. Plus, medical billing is not rote work. It requires thought throughout the process. IMO, a slight loss of speed can be amply compensated by a significantly reduced risk of error. Different people here will argue about where the greatest costs/benefits lie in this process. My view is that putting speed ahead of accuracy is penny-wise pound-foolish. When all cost centers are totalled in this domain, it costs way more to fix a mistake than to prevent it. That may be hard to see if one's point of view is limited to only one segment of the process. The taxpayer pays for all segments though, not just one. YMMV.
Ken Dibblewww.stic-cil.org
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