To create a charting template to facilitate your notes taking, here are the steps to follow:
1. Click on Charting
2. Click on Charting Templates
3. Click on + Add to create a blank template (in this case, skip to step 7 directly), or on Library to modify an existing file
4. If you clicked on Library to work from an already created template, choose the desired language
5. Click on the template title in the list
6. All you have to do now is Add to my Templates
7. You can now create or edit your template. First, give it a name
8. Enter a description (optional)
9. Link to an existing lexicon (optional) *To find out what a lexicon is and how to create one, see this page
10. Change the language, if needed
11. Click + Field to add a new field to your charting template
Let's see the different possible actions:
A. Enlarge or shrink the field box
B. Move the field box (for example, to change the questions order)
C. Modify the field
D. Delete field
Here is now a description of the different options when you want to modify a field:
A. If this box is checked, the field will still appear, even if no information has been entered inside
B. If this box is checked, the label (or title, if you prefer) will not display on your listing template
C. If this box is checked, the summary field will appear in the right section of the client file, under Summary
Here is also the description of each field type:
Note/Notes, Reason for consultation and Follow-up: a field allowing to write free text on several lines
Checkboxes/Multiple Choices: Convenient for indicating symptoms, special conditions, medications, etc. and just having to check them off, instead of having to manually rewrite everything every appointment
Multiple questions/Multiple texts and Vital signs: several questions oriented vertically or by column, with the possibility of taking notes to clarify certain details
Pain scale/Scale: to be able to request a pain rating from 1 to 10, for example
Sketch/Draw: a field to draw freely
Table and Diet: possibility of entering several data on several rows or columns
Diagram/Drawing: for an image of the human body, spine, Maigne cross, etc. Note that you can also upload your own image, by clicking on the + located to the right of the Image menu