Concerns
- Active: leads with date, sorted ascending alphabetically
- Past: leads with date, sorted descending by date
Medications
- Active: leads with date, sorted ascending alphabetically
- Past: leads with date, sorted ascending alphabetically
Devices
- Active: leads with date, sorted ascending alphabetically
Emergency Contacts - specified list order
Healthcare Providers - Leads with text, sorted ascending alphabetically
Immunizations -leads with date, dates sorted ascending by date within vaccine, list unsorted by neither text nor date
Treatments
- Active - leads with date, sorted ascending alphabetically
- Past - leads with date, sorted ascending alphabetically
I don't care how you sort it, but be consistent. Many of these entries lead with a date, but are not sorted by date. I suggest that a medical history summary is like a medical resumé and that items listed by date should be sorted by date, newest to oldest. Beyond consistency, this has the added benefit of showing the progression of the patient's health and care. Sorting text items, like Contacts, alphabetically, makes sense. If sorting everything alphabetically, then lead with the text and put the dates after the text. A list presented date first, but sorted by text, at first appears unordered, then the sort becomes apparent and the reader has to backtrack to the dates after figuring out the order. People will figure it out , but you will make it a lot easier by being consistent, however you choose to do it.
- Tom
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