Patient Care - Reference Manual - Physician - Fraser Health Authority

6. A Word about Selecting ‘Visits’After choosing the correct patient record, the Visit Selection screen appears. On thisscreen, Visits by Date is the default menu and screen. These visits appear in reversechronological order by visit. One or more visits may be selected for this individual. Oldervisits are displayed on the screen, by clicking on the Earlier button. More recent visitsare displayed on the screen by clicking on the Later button.The following graphic shows the ‘Visit’ icons used on the Visit Selection screen.Active AdmittedDischargedActive RecurringEmergencyDepartmentClinicalRecurringDischargedObservationSurgical Day CareProviderActive HomeHealthEvaluationActive HomeHealth AdmittedCancelled HomeHealth EvaluationNon-AdmittedHome HealthEvaluationHome HealthDischarged1) Selecting More Than One Visit - if selecting more than one visit, EMR consolidatesthe information from those visits into a single display on the screen. For example,data for an individual's hospital visits for October 3, and December 18, 2000, can beviewed on the same screen as a clinic visit on January 5, 2001.2) Visits by Diagnosis - the Visits by Diagnosis menu option permits viewing ofseveral visits for the same diagnosis.a) Click on the Visits by Diagnosis option, the Diagnosis screen displays the list ofdiagnoses for the selected record.b) Click on the relevant diagnosis to view visit data.c) To view a list of visits for one or more diagnoses, click in the Select column forthose diagnoses. A red x appears in the Select column.d) To view the data for these selected visits, click on the View x visits menu option.Health InformaticsHealth Information Systems and Services© Fraser Health Authority, 2006. All rights reserved.53