Can I Give You a Paper Cut?
EMRs produce some weird charts sometimes. This is an actual notation from a patient's electronic medical record:
Patient complains of pain.
On a scale 0-10 patient rates pain as 0
Comfort Goal: 2-5.
I'd rather give a paper cut to the pencil-pushing genius who came up with the concept of the "comfort goal." I'm sure he was also involved in the decision to create a paragraph with a misleading opening sentence to help us document information which should only require two words to convey.
No pain.
Patient complains of pain.
On a scale 0-10 patient rates pain as 0
Comfort Goal: 2-5.
I'd rather give a paper cut to the pencil-pushing genius who came up with the concept of the "comfort goal." I'm sure he was also involved in the decision to create a paragraph with a misleading opening sentence to help us document information which should only require two words to convey.
No pain.
posted by scalpel at 1:35 PM
8 Comments:
That's hilarious. We're going to the electronic T-system soon (after dictating for years) so it should be interesting to figure out all of the quirks in the program. Comfort score? Never heard of that. Not sure I like it at all.
So did you meet the Goal? What method did you use to inflict enough pain to bring the patient up to a 2? Or is that what the program is for--"Patient rates pain as a 0. Swift kick to the ding-ding advised"?
Ah, very nice.
I would think that a titty twist would be enough to bring him up to the desired 2-5 range.
Is an ouchie-boo-boo equal to a 2 on that stupid pain scale?
Comfort goal: your stick out of my ass.
Comfort goal? I thought that when the patient had pain the goal was to find the cause and treat it. Silly me.
Our Moto: Pain builds character, and we are just the characters to build it!
That's funny! :)
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