CDR Tickets

BZISSUE::5265
BZDATETIME::2012-11-26 15:48:39
BZCREATOR::Margaret Beckwith
BZASSIGNEE::Volker Englisch
BZQACONTACT::William Osei-Poku

We would like to explore the option of adding a paragraph to a patient summary miscellaneous document that would include placeholder text that would be stored in the individual summary document. This would be similiar to the Purpose Text that we currently have in the HP summaries for populating the part of the first sentence of the Purpose para in the About This PDQ Summary section.

The proposed text is:

"The metastatic tumor is the same type of cancer as the primary tumor. For example, if BREAST CANCER spreads to the BONES, the cancer cells in the BONES are actually BREAST CANCER cells. The disease is metastatic BREAST CANCER, not BONE CANCER."

The text in upper case is the text that would change based on the type of cancer the summary was about. (We found in user testing that it confused people to be in a colon cancer summary but be reading boilerplate text about breast cancer spreading to the bones.)

We are trying to determine if it is worth the effort to create the placeholders and populuate them versus going into each patient summary and entering the text separately. Open for discussion at a CDR meeting.