Entering patient data

To enter medical data for a patient, select a form and fill in the appropriate values.

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After clicking the button Save changes, a pop up (Saving succeeded) will confirm that the data you entered has been saved. Please be aware that any data you entered will be lost if you leave the page without successfully saving the changes made to the form. A warning message will appear when trying to leave a form with unsaved changes.

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Useful notes for entering data

Some notes on entering or changing patient data: * Hovering the mouse cursor over a field or item will display a tooltip with a short definition or further instructions for completing this field. * If applicable make sure to enter values corresponding to the indicated unit of measurement (e.g. ‘cm’ or ‘mmol/l’). * Mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk (*) and are highlighted red if you try and save changes without entering data. Please note that none of your data can be saved until all visible mandatory fields are completed. * Some fields only allow entering values from a specified range or data type (e.g. whole numbers or decimal numbers). If the data entered exceeds the range or does not correspond to the specified data type, these will be highlighted red and display a short error message when trying to save the form. Please note that none of your data can be saved until any faulty entries are corrected.

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  • In some cases, additional items or questions will appear depending on the information you provide, e.g., ‘How many children?’ if you checked ‘yes’ when queried whether the patient has any children.
  • In other cases, such as for a list of current medication, you might have to generate a table, providing the information indicated in the headers for each entry. After clicking the Add new entry button, a row of data input fields becomes available for each column of the table. Existing rows can be deleted from the table using the bin icon on the right.

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