This page was originally created for VetView 2.0.12 in December 2020. It has been updated to reflect changes in VetView 5.0 on October 9th, 2024.
Both Episode Problems and SOAPs have been moved from being discrete Patient Record elements on their own to being part of the Catalog elements system.
This allows for more flexibility when creating the kind of SOAP forms that you want your clinical staff and students to fill out based on the kind of episode and patient that they are working with.
Please see Catalog Setup in 5.0 for details in building these new documents with the elements.
Episode Problems in a Document
To add a problem to an episode, you must first add a Document with a Problem element.
Adding a new problem from a document
Problems can be added in two formats: Either directly from a value list that your Hospital has pre-assigned to all Problems within the system, or as free text.
If your Hospital allows for free text in addition to the Problem list, you can enter anything that you want.
While you are working on the Problems for a patient, you can add and remove them as needed.
When you are done, be sure to click on the Save New Problems button to add the Problem to the official Episode Problem list.
Problems to the Master Problem List on the Visit Summary Tab
Problems that are added to the Visit Information tab on an episode will automatically be added to the Master Problem List on the Visit Summary Tab.
These problems can be manipulated on the patient record itself or on the MPL as part of differential diagnosis.
Add a Diagnosis as a Problem (5.0 and later)
If you have Diagnosis codes that are built as lower level problems for differential diagnosis, you can now access these from the Problem menu directly and treat them as problems.
Like Problems, they will be added to the Master Problem List on the Visit Summary Tab, where they can be manipulated. And on the episode, they can be SOAPed.
The Diagnosis medical record category still exists for coding purposes. This is separated from the Diagnosis Problems within the SOAP documents. Diagnosis have also had improvements in 5.0