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Personal Pronouns In Letters

Submitted by EastsideVetEmerg on Sun, 15/07/2012 - 20:15
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Hi,

I am writing discharge statements for a variety of conditions. I am creating these as patient letters where we can add in further comments/medications etc. However I would like to be able to refer to patients as "he/she" in letters. Obviously I don't want to type this out each time we refer to him or her...

So is anyone aware of a way in patient letters I can get OpenVPMS/MS Word or Open Office to recognise the sex of my patient and refer to them as he/she in the document?

Thanking you,

Adrian Simon

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Re: Personal Pronouns In Letters

Submitted by dadmin on Mon, 16/07/2012 - 13:45.

Hi Adrian,

you can do this using conditional text. You add the patient sex input field to the document: (insert>fields>other)

Once you have entered the details as above press the green tick. 

Next place the cursor where you want the pronoun to appear and then go to insert>field>other and select the functions tab. Select conditional text in the list and put the condition in as well as what you want to appear. See the example below:

 

I don't think I've left anything out. Let me know if you have an trouble.

Matt Y.

ps. this is using openoffice.

Re: Personal Pronouns In Letters

Submitted by Yuri on Thu, 19/07/2012 - 10:34.

Matt

Clever tip, well done.

Where would I find a list of conditions and syntax?  I'm wondering if I can use this to convert a date such as 19/07/2013 to July 2013 (for use on vaccination certificates for next due date for example).

Yuri.

Re: Personal Pronouns In Letters

Submitted by dadmin on Thu, 19/07/2012 - 23:09.

Hi Yuri,

I know that you can do set the date format if you use the date field in the document but I have never tried setting the format of the startTime variable so I'm not sure whether that would work or not. 

Matt.

Re: Personal Pronouns In Letters

Submitted by bencharlton (not verified) on Thu, 26/07/2012 - 14:05.

It was my impression startTime was passed from Open as a Text field, meaning it could not be dateFormatted. It will return some date like 1/1/1899 I think...if you try to format it.

Re: Personal Pronouns In Letters

Submitted by EastsideVetEmerg on Tue, 24/07/2012 - 07:21.

Thank you for that information Matt...

Were you also able to tell me how to do this in MS Word? Most of our documents are in this format. I have tried to use an IF field, but no joy...

Thanking you,

Adrian

PS. Matt - Were you based in Sydney? You post quite often and seem to know your way around OpenVPMS very well! I am new to the system and am interested in talking to/visiting clinics that use Open so I can better learn how to make it work for us and our situation.

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