We use a couple HPI subcategories as questionnaires for our dental visits. One has questions about the patient’s PCP, last dental visit, etc. Others have questions on diet and oral hygiene to assess a caries-risk score. These are filled out at a patient’s initial visit, then on future visits they copied into the current progress note through the yellow carrot.
One of these questionnaires called “CRA 0-5” is listed as a “Symptom” under the category “Dental” (see second photo below). Then when you click on that symptom, you see all the questions and can enter the responses. However, we’ve realized that it would be better to change “CRA 0-5” to be a subcategory like “CRA 13-17 SLC” and the others (see first photo). Then we would have each question be a symptom that can be checked as c/o or denies.
So here is my question. If I go in under the admin settings and delete “CRA 0-5” as a symptom under the category “Dental” so that we can add it as a subcategory like the others, what happens? I assume nothing happens to the previously locked notes, and they will still display the “CRA 0-5” questionnaire as we filled it out before we locked it. But on future progress notes when we click on the yellow carrot on a new progress note, will there be an option to copy the previous “CRA 0-5” questionnaire to the current progress note? I assume not, because there would be no current “CRA 0-5” symptom to copy the answer to, right?
Thanks!
