Creating a Clinical Case

Clinical Cases batch samples together per 'Patient Disease Event' for analysis, it may stretch over any period time and include both human and food, water or other relevant samples. A number of additional attributes, e.g. symptoms, are captured per Case

Clinical Cases are good examples of how Senaite's underlying Batching functionality is customised for a given scenario

Navigate to Cases from the Navigation tree, click the [+add] button

List of Clinical Cases in Bika Health LIMS

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A new Case page opens. Select an existing Patient or add one from the [+] button

Patients can be looked up with their Client Patient IDs (CPID) as issued by their referring institutions, the lab 'clients'

Select Patient

After selection:

New Case Patient

New Patient form the Case form

You may also want to add a new patient using the [+] button or edit the patient selected with new information gained from the case. This function is discussed under a separate heading

On the Case create form It starts in a pop-up like this:

Case Patient pop-up

Patients, and Doctors, can also be maintained from the main Patients entry point, on the navigation tree, it is discussed in an upcoming section of the manual

Some referring institutions will provide their own Case IDs too to be captured

Client Case ID

In this example here a compulsory doctor is also required and can be looked up or a new one created if the user has the correct authorisation

Select Doctor

Selecting and onset date - click the field to bring up a date picker - will see the system complete the patient's age at the onset date

Case Onset date

In the Senaite Health customisation these screenshots were taken, some basic male Patient condition attributes are captured, also the hours fasting that can effect results.

More data are captured for female patients

Patient Condition

Ditto for some basic symptoms configured in the LIMS set-up and all of them are presented in the UI with 'severity' buttons, mild, moderate and severe. Optionally ICD classified symptoms can be captured, see lower down

Simple Symptoms

ICD classification is also used for provisional diagnoses:

Provisional Diagnosis

Epidemiological customisations require Case Status, Outcome and eventually Aetiological Agent attributes too, these are not necessarily completed when the case is created

Case Status and Outcome