Jeff Johnson wrote:
> I have a Web design problem and would like to know if there is a good
> solution

I think more information is required before an answer can be given.

1) Is the main purpose of the app for
- display? (what meds is patient X taking?)
- editing? (add/remove/edit meds for patient X)

2) Do you always want to list meds by patient or will you want to
list patients by med?

If editing is the main purpose, is it more common to edit one
patient per session or might you have to edit the meds of more
than one patient in a session?

3a) How big is the list of patients? And b) what's the maximum
number of meds one can have?

4) How does one find the patient record to edit?

I can think of various design patterns, depending on your answers.


Paola
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http://www.paolability.com/

Jeff Johnson wrote:
> CHI-Web colleagues,
> 
> I have a Web design problem and would like to know if there is a good
> solution.
> 
> I'll use medicine as a domain to illustrate the problem (although
> medicine isn't the domain in which I am working):
> 
> Assume a medical Web app has a page that lists patients.  Each patient
> has several attributes, so the list of patients is displayed as a
> table.  One attribute for each patient is meds the patient is taking. 
> That itself is a list of varying length.
> 
> Problem 1: how to display the list of meds for each patient in the list
> of patients.
> Problem 2: how to allow users to edit the list of meds for each patient,
> i.e., add/delete meds from the list.
> 
> Ideas for solutions and pointers to sites that tackle this problem would
> be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff Johnson, Ph.D.
> UI Wizards, Inc.
> 
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