"No Reason" - New Visit created on day 2 of Hospitalisation

Submitted by Yuri on Tue, 17/07/2012 - 16:49

General User's Discussion

If I have a patient in for more than one day, how do I keep all the info in one visit?

If I try to "consult" a hospitalised patient on day 2, OpenVPMS generates a new visit entitled "No Reason". If I ignore the "No Reason" visit and add a "day 2" note under day 1's visit (which seems logical to me), then bill out medication and documents, the medication and documents are then stored under the "No Reason" visit and not with the visit for which the medication is prescribed or documents generated.

How do users deal with animals hospitalised, examined and medicated for several days if each day is a separate visit?

Yuri.

Re: "No Reason" - New Visit created on day 2 of Hospitalisation

Submitted by YarraRanges on Wed, 18/07/2012 - 13:26.

Because we want evrything in reverse chronological order, viz. The most recent on top of the medical record, each subsequent day, we create a new visit with the following reason ...." In Hospitalisation Treatment" and have this as a Macro. Also as we are a multi vet practice, we want the observations and treatment notes recorded with the Vet who did them, not the original admitting Vet. Dont know if this is the "best way" but works well enough.

Re: "No Reason" - New Visit created on day 2 of Hospitalisation

Submitted by Yuri on Wed, 18/07/2012 - 13:50.

Paul said

>we create a new visit

I don't set out to create a new visit on day 2, it just happens all by itself! As I'm a single person practice, I don't have your concerns about who does what and when, but I thought one stay in hospital would count as one Visit, not multiple.

Yuri.

Re: "No Reason" - New Visit created on day 2 of Hospitalisation

Submitted by Matt C on Wed, 18/07/2012 - 23:18.

Hi Yuri,

I agree. One visit per hospital stay. Make sure your first visit is left "In Progress" (you might have to do this manually) and new items (example from billing) will attach to that visit rather then creating new ones.

Cheers,

matt C

Re: "No Reason" - New Visit created on day 2 of Hospitalisation

Submitted by Yuri on Thu, 19/07/2012 - 09:20.

Matt

Thanks, that makes sense - I'll try that with the next one we have overnight.

Yuri.

Re: "No Reason" - New Visit created on day 2 of Hospitalisation

Submitted by Yuri on Sat, 21/07/2012 - 14:03.

Just a follow-up......

Matt C said

>One visit per hospital stay.
>Make sure your first visit is left "In Progress" (you might have to do this manually)

Thanks, Matt, just tried it with a dummy case - and yes, you're correct, one needs to set "In Progress" at the Scheduling or Worklists stage, not at the Invoicing stage.