Free text vs click box charting

[TooMuchResearch]

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How would blowing results into the note help you if you bone the interpretation? I might be too tired to get it.

Fair question, I wasn't very clear when I wrote this last night. Maaan, was I tired.

Its just as easy to make a mistake summarizing the data as it is any other task. Lets say you're getting ready to dictate your MDM, and you get incepterrupted by an RN. You stop what you're doing, look up the other data, and then dictate on THAT data in the FIRST chart. Also; lets say you interpret "acute hyponatremia in the setting of renal failure" but the patient is really neither (pseudohyponatremia due to hyperglycemia, and patient is actually at their baseline renal function). Can happen.

 

[RustedFox]

How would blowing results into the note help you if you bone the interpretation? I might be too tired to get it.

1. Makes it less likely that you bone the interpretation if you're looking at the data immediately and on the same document.

2. If you do bone the interpretation, next doc can look at the raw data and not just your boned interpretation.

 

[TooMuchResearch]

Got it. Still sounds like Epic has some advantages here as I am always staring at the data while writing the MDM. Some of our more recent residency grads use the ED Course function which allows you to annotate MDM attached to specific results and blow that into the chart. I don't do that as it seems to encourage touching the chart/note too many times and try to get through more efficiently than that.

1. Makes it less likely that you bone the interpretation if you're looking at the data immediately and on the same document.

2. If you do bone the interpretation, next doc can look at the raw data and not just your boned interpretation.

 

[wareagle726]

Yeah. Okay; I'll bite.

I have a passion for my wife, baseball/hockey cards, and golf.
Nobody has a passion for billing/coding.
The millennials have taken this word "passion" and redefined it to mean "passive interest".

I read an article a few days back entitled: "20 words you should never use to describe yourself" in the context of job-seeking/resume writing/etc.

It was basically a list of words that millennials use every other sentence.

Fair enough, I should have said interest. You win again RF.

 

[thegenius]

Nobody has a passion for billing/coding.
The millennials have taken this word "passion" and redefined it to mean "passive interest".

I read an article a few days back entitled: "20 words you should never use to describe yourself" in the context of job-seeking/resume writing/etc.

It was basically a list of words that millennials use every other sentence.

Amazing

Awesome

These two words would be #1 and #2 on that list. They are overused on a regular basis.

People say "this is an amazing burrito"

Amazing? Is that really the right word to describe rice, beans and a tortilla?
Burritos can be delicious or tasty. Not Amazing.

Wanna know what is amazing?
Space flight.
Space flight is amazing. Space flight and landing a person on the moon is amazing.

 

[RustedFox]

Fair enough, I should have said interest. You win again RF.

Its not your fault, man. I don't mean to discourage you from posting.

Actually, its almost like you just "passed the test".

Like my Dad always said: "If you can't harass your friends, then who can you harass?"

That you can laugh at yourself is good proof of you being "cut from the cloth" for EM.

I have eaten crow and humbled myself dozens of times on here. When I look back on my early post history, I'm like:

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(Will edit when I learn how to do this.)

 

[wareagle726]

Oh it's definitely not discouraging. If I didn't think it was in good fun I wouldn't have given a response at all!

Also, thanks everyone for the insight into the original question.