Maxillofacial Casualty Logbook
For the Psion Series 3 and Series 5. Written 1999
This software arose from a need to properly record the work junior staff were doing outside of routine clinical hours. It works very well and will catagorise 96% of all cases seen. It is surprising just what is done and not picked up; for example 50% of work done over a three month period at my last hospital placement was on children under 10 years who were only seen in the casualty department, most of these cases were trauma. This sort of information is very useful as one department I know of managed to get extra funding for their own casualty room once the figures were produced!
How it works
The purpose of the program is to record patient details, administration details eg time and who saw the patient, diagnosis and cause of attendence. The diagnosis is made by stepping through 4 choice menus. The Cause of Attendence section works in a similar way. Even the most technophobic pick it up in about 5 minutes and initially it may take them 5 minutes to enter a patient but within a days use one can reduce this to some 30 seconds. The most important feature of this program is free text entry is kept to a minimum, this makes it quick to use and data easy to analyse at a later date.
A second program written for Microsoft Access 97 on a PC does the data analysis. When the Psion is backed up the PC reads the backup file for it's data. Customised reports are already present eg. a breakdown of the cause of attendence per month or the types of trauma in the last month. If you are familiar with Access then you can make up your own reports in no time.
The program was initially written for the series 3 as this is a cheap and robust machine. It now is predominantly used on Psion Revo and Series 5 machines.
Screenshots
An example of the first choice in making a diagnosis. The text in the background is the details of the last patient seen.
Examples reports from the Logbook
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Email me: Psion@Dr.com