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Last edited on 2010-05-13 04:10:22 by MartinWehlouAdditions:
It would be wrong to erase the information about urinary infections, of course, since the chest pain may possibly have something to do with it (unlikely), and it's important to maintain a count of how frequent these infections are, since if they recur often and during a long period, they may indicate a more severe problem that may need more thorough investigation, but these infections definitely do not warrant occupying prime screen real estate when I'm clearly looking for something else. I should be able to see just a one-liner mention of "urinary tract infection" for each such infection, and be able to read all about it only if I explicitly asked the system to show me.
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As an example, you may find a patient with a history of urinary infections, maybe once a year, where the annotations due to urinary infections can form half or more of the total volume of text in the medical record. None of that is interesting when the patient presents with chest pains (for example), but it severely diminishes our ability to find the annotations that //are// relevant to the chest pains in between all that urinary bladder gunk.
