Daniel, I plan to use AS-MSE-1065 labels. They come in an A4 sheet of 5x13 labels. Each label is 38x21.2mm.
Printed on the label I just need family name, other names (we allow for 3), internal patient id and DoB.
We anticipate attaching the label to all samples and paper documents - about 20 labels per birth. I am trying to follow an implementation plan where paper vitals records and orders are progressively phased out the labels are one step along the way.
Here is a scanned sample of something I produced using Care2x. Ideally the labels find their way into a pdf file which could be retained.Scan_20170118.pdf (2.5 MB)
The natural thing seems to add a line to the (normally blue) menu box on the patient search screen. I suspect that as I go further along this road I may have a number of patient specific documents that I will wish to print and so ideally we would branch to some a secondary menu where the document type would be specified - in this case patient labels.
This is pretty simplistic, there may some other context situations where there are better designs, but I had hoped to be able to have something like this:
That is the idea. Most frequently the label production will happen as part of registration. The screen appears at the end of a successful registration and so is the ideal place.
That’s it. As I said we expect to consume about 20 labels per birth and hope that we will get the mothers to return for subsequent births and as it is just a few cents to produce the full page we will keep the spares in the patient records folder.
Yes. In our case we are using a 4 part code to quickly identify where the paper patient records can be found. a-bb-cc-dd, where a= file room;bb=file rack;cc=shelf;dd=position.
@mafrica on this server http://int-refapp.openmrs.org/ search for any patient and go to their dashboard.
Then under “General Actions” click on “Patient Summary” and tell me if the document that downloads is what you are looking for.
The specific paper has 5mm margin, top, bottom and side. The label needs to be repeated 5 times across the page and 13 times down. Not sure on your font size but by memory (I will verify) I need 9pt to fit in the label. The Dob and id need to be swapped. Many, many thanks
Font looks good, but it would be good to know how to adjust. For the record I was wrong on the margin it is in fact 10mm. The repeat counts are fine and printed row layout fine. I need to control the spacing between each column and row. On the example I measure the cols at 28mm wide and the rows 19mm deep, I need to set this to 38mm and 21.2mm