Inpatient Care Module

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Last updated: Aug 26, 2010 by Michael DowneyVersion comment
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Overview

This module extends Encounter records in a way that allows recording of inpatient care (i.e. encounters with a time interval rather than a discrete date), as well as a hierarchy of 'parent' and 'child' encounters. A 'parent' encounter expresses the overall duration of inpatient care, while 'child' encounters represent interactions that take place during the patient's stay (e.g. physician visitations or procedures performed by a nurse). At the end, a discharge letter can be generated as a PDF file.

It also uses the location hierarchy of OpenMRS to support sub-sections of a hospital (i.e. departments, specialties and rooms). Figure 1 shows the hierarchy used in this module. In addition, rooms can have an optional bed capacity (i.e. to indicate hospital bedrooms in contrast to other room types).

Figure 1: Location hierarchy

The location of the recorded encounter can be an entity from any hierarchy level (hospital through room).

Finally, the module adds rudimentary functions for filtering patient record access based on the user's home locations. A user can be put into a 'location-restricted' mode and assigned at least one home location. He will then only be able to access patients who have ever had at least one encounter at that location (or any of its child locations).

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Release Notes

  • 1.0.2
    • Fixed discharge letter generation
    • Fixed declaration of the boolean element that indicates an encounter as an inpatient parent (which no longer worked as expected)
    • Fixed a bad query in sqldiff.xml
    • Added calls to generate UUIDs when adding rows to standard OpenMRS tables in sqldiff.xml (which otherwise no longer work with more recent OpenMRS 1.5.x revisions)
    • Redesigned the user-location mapping menu (location type selection, filtering of beds)
    • Requires at least OpenMRS 1.5 RC2
  • 1.0.1
    • Fixed discharge letter PDF generation (added missing XSLT stylesheet)
    • Minor enhancements to problem and encounter management forms
  • 1.0
    • Initial release

Roadmap

  • 1.1.x
    • Add OpenMRS 1.6 compatibility

Developers

Andrey Kozhushkov, Ghislain Kouematchoua (Department of Medical Informatics, University of Göttingen)