New Case Information

Overall description

Purpose: This is a starting point to case creation. Form is used to create cases for different case types and exam types. User must click save button in banner to generate the case number.

Layout: The page is organized in 7 collapsible sections. See below for specifics if available for each section.

Common Page Functions:
Lists and Suggestions:The content of drop down lists, are manneged by the application's administrator.
Any user can suggest a change to the list. (see lists modficiation and suggestions)
Drop Downs and Combo Boxes: User will interact with different controls with arrows. Please see (Drop Downs vs Combo Box)

Section Information

• General Case Information:

  Required Fields:This page has only one required field, Case Type, all the other field can be empty.

  Note that in this section the list Sub Manner Of Death is dependant in the Manner of death selection. This list will be empty until a manner of death is selected.
  

• Reporting Information:

  Day of the week: Field is set by entering a value into reported date.
  Reported By is a contact field see help. Contacts.

• Demographic Information:

  Race is a multi select drop down see help. Multi Select

• Deceased Address:

  When the check box Same Address as Death Location is checked, all the other fields in the section became read only and they display the information entered for the deceased address.
  By clicking on the Copy Death Location Address all the data from the death location address fields are copied into the deceased address fields and the field remain available to be edited; this could be used as a short cut when most, but not all the information is shared between this two location. After the information is copied over, it can be then modified to the correct values.
  By checking the No Fixed Address - Homeless Transient check box, all the address field are disabled and any current value on those fields will be discarded when the page is saved.

• Work Information standard data entry.
• Birth And Death Information
  

  Age: System will calculate the age of the decedent if the user enters a birth date and death pronounced date. User can also enter time to calcualte long age (display months days etc). The cutoff for long age display is set by the system administrator.
  User can check Birth Date Unknown, this will disable the birth date, and birth time fields and allow the user to enter the age in Years and Months.
  

• Cremation Information

  Checking the cremation checkbox will create a case number prefixed with the letter "C".