As I stated before, I am having to rebuild my IT files. I have a bunch of stuff in there and add as I go, but I noticed today that I am missing a bunch of my he/she expansions...i.e. he was admitted, etc.

I also have to go back in and re-enter all my year-olds (as in -year-old white male). Just wondered if anyone had any of these they felt like sharing to save time on the manual entry...LOL! Thanks...always looking for those shortcuts. :thumb

2busy -
Have you checked the IT downloadable glossaries at: http://www.textware.com/glossary/med.htm

There are several good glossaries there - maybe some would be useful to you?
I'm not sure about he/she entries, but maybe you could just edit the text file and do a search/replace to add the he/she to existing verb entries.

I'm amazed at how powerful the search/replace function is in Word. You can even search or replace whole words, parts of words, and special characters like the tab or paragraph markers.

I'll try to play around with my glossaries later and filter out some of my he/she entries to share! It could be another continuation game like Harrie starts!

-sono_io

Thanks bunches sono. I haven't had time today unfortunately to do any playing with IT entries after I posted here earlier. Hopefully tomorrow will give me some time, if not, I will play with those on Monday when the kids go back to school....YEAHHHHHHHHH!

p.s. I forgot to say that yes I have gotten the glossaries from the IT site. That was the first thing I did and I still have those. My problem was that when I packed up my other computer and sent it back, I forgot to save/backup again (or else had an issue saving...can't remember now) my glossary that I had created so a lot of my entries that I had are not in this computer which is frustrating to say the least. I go to type what I know the expansion should be and it isn't there....aaarrgghh! Thanks for your suggestions!

A continuation game sounds great for this! Want to start it, sono?

May I ask you two, though, well, perhaps this isn't the right place. But I'm just wondering how Excel could help with this. You are both Excel users, or do you think it wouldn't be a big help? I cannot remember off my head all the helpful posts about Excel and glossaries. I'll have to do a definite search! I'm anxious to learn some of these useful things myself!

And - are we primarily talking about he/she entries here, or also the more problematic ones, his/her?

2busy-- is this what you are looking for?

yoaa = -year-old African-American
yobf = -year-old black female
yobm = -year-old black male
yoboy = -year-old boy
yocf = -year-old Caucasian female
yocg = -year-old Caucasian gentleman
yoch = -year-old child
yoch = young child
yochi = young children
yocl = -year-old Caucasian lady
yocm = -year-old Caucasian male
yocw = -year-old Caucasian woman
yof = -year-old female
yog = -year-old gentleman
yogi = -year-old girl
yohf = -year-old Hispanic female
yohg = -year-old Hispanic gentleman
yohm = -year-old Hispanic male
yokf = -year-old Korean female
yokm = -year-old Korean male
yol = -year-old lady
yom = -year-old male
yop = -year-old patient
yopf = -year-old Filipino female
yoff = -year-old Filipino female
yofm = -year-old Filipino male
yopm = -year-old Filipino male
yow = -year-old woman
yowf = -year-old white female
yowg = -year-old white gentleman
yowm = -year-old white male
yoww = -year-old white woman

Hope this helps! Lori

yep...those are great! Thank you!

Harrie....Excel probably could help if for no other reason than organizing the ones you have and there is probably a feature in excel to pick out only those rows that have he/she in them...I would have to ask DH because I would have NO clue about how to do that, but I bet there is a way.

His/her, he/she, they are all helpful at this point. I had just noticed that when I went to enter in swatth, that my expansion wasn't there and it was irritating to me (swatth = she was admitted to the hospital) so then I tried a few more and realized that most of them were not in there. Was admitted was there, as well as was admitted to the hospital, but not any of those that would begin with he/she. I am going to try to sit with this tomorrow some and see what I can find, but figured I would check here too. Thanks for the help everyone. Continuation game sounds fun...I am still thinking of some more. I would really like to get all the ones that have been posted so far and put them in one spot on this board to make it easy for others to copy and paste...maybe I will have time to work on that some, but I saw where someone had already started on that...maybe I shouldn't.

Okay, I think I am getting tired because I am not sure any of that made sense....good night.

Here are some past threads that may help, 2busy. A lot else is in with them, but you can just eye the he/she his/her combos.

http://www.productivitytalk.com/forums/ind...&hl=she+will+be

http://www.productivitytalk.com/forums/ind...&hl=she+will+be

http://www.productivitytalk.com/forums/ind...&hl=she+will+be

http://www.productivitytalk.com/forums/ind...&hl=she+will+be

http://www.productivitytalk.com/forums/ind...4&hl=she+has+no

http://www.productivitytalk.com/forums/ind...4&hl=she+has+no

http://www.productivitytalk.com/forums/ind...hl=he+will+have

I thought I had these already...I will have to go in and double check my glossary now, because I thought I had copied and pasted all of the additions from this board...pooh...maybe I missed a few. Thanks for all your help! Everyone here is wonderful!!!!!

Here are some "he is" phrases you might be able to use. You can copy this list into Word and do a search and replace "= he" for "= she" and another time for "= the patient" to get lots of variations.

Then, to change the short forms, do another search/replace. In my case, I replaced the paragraph marker plus space plus h with *paragraph marker-space-sh*

In Word, you can show the formatting characters (like spaces and end-of-line markers) to make it easier to see what you can search and replace on.


hi = he is
hia = he is a
hia = he is alert
hia = he is also
hia = he is awake
hib = he is being
hic = he is complaining
hic = he is currently
hid = he is doing
hif = he is feeling
hih = he is having
hii = he is interested
hin = he is not
hio = he is on
his = he is scheduled
his = he is stable
hit = he is to
hiaa = he is alert and
hiaa = he is an alert
hiaa = he is awake, alert
hiac = he is alert, cooperative
hiac = he is ambulatory, competent
hiai = he is ambulating independently
hiat = he is a Tanner
hiat = he is able to
hiat = he is allergic to
hiav = he is a very
hiaw = he is a well-developed
hiaw = he is a well-nourished
hiaw = he is alert, well
hica = he is concerned about
hico = he is complaining of
hico = he is currently on
hict = he is currently taking
hidw = he is doing well
hidw = he is drinking well
hiet = he is exposed to
hifb = he is followed by
hifw = he is feeling well
higt = he is going to
hihf = he is here for
hihw = he is here with
hiid = he is in day
hiif = he is in fifth
hiii = he is interested in
hiin = he is in no
hiit = he is in the
hinc = he is not complaining
hinh = he is not having
hini = he is not improving
hinl = he is no longer
hino = he is now on
hint = he is nontender to
hint = he is now three
hiow = he is otherwise without
hiph = he is presently having
hisf = he is scheduled for
hiso = he is stable, oriented
hisp = he is status post
hist = he is scheduled to
hitc = he is to continue
hitf = he is to follow
hitr = he is to return
hitt = he is to take
hitw = he is to wear
hiut = he is unable to
hiwa = he is a well-appearing and
hiwa = he is well appearing and
hiaaa = he is an alert and
hiaai = he is alert and interactive
hiaao = he is alert and oriented
hiaca = he is also concerned about
hiahr = he is at high risk
hiaoc = he is an only child
hiawf = he is alert without focal
hiaww = he is a well-developed, well-nourished
hibtf = he is being treated for
hicos = he is complaining of some
hicso = he is currently stable on
hictt = he is concerned that the
hidvw = he is doing very well
hiets = he is exposed to secondhand
hihtf = he is here today for
hihtw = he is here today with
hihwh = he is here with his
hiiar = he is in a regular
hiidc = he is in day care
hiifg = he is in fifth grade
hiiip = he is interested in proceeding
hiitg = he is in tenth grade
hiitg = he is in third grade
hilib = he is lying in bed
hinco = he is not complaining of
hinha = he is not having any
hinlo = he is no longer on
hintb = he is noted to be
hintw = he is now three weeks
hionm = he is on numerous medications
hiowc = he is otherwise without complaints
hisob = he is short of breath
histe = he is spaced to every
hists = he is scheduled to see
hitfu = he is to follow up
hitot = he is tender over the
hitri = he is to return if
hittp = he is tender to palpation
hiwaa = he is a well-appearing
hiwaa = he is a well-appearing and
hiaawa = he is alert and well appearing
hieadw = he is eating and drinking well
hihtwh = he is here today with his
hihwhm = he is here with his mother
hihwhp = he is here with his parents
hiiipw = he is interested in proceeding with
hitfuw = he is to follow up with
hiaaott = he is alert and oriented times three
hiiipwt = he is interested in proceeding with treatment
hilwrfd = he is left with residual functional deficits
hittpot = he is tender to palpation over the
hiiipwtt = he is interested in proceeding with the treatment
hinahpfs = he is nontender about his previous fracture site
hiacainad = he is alert, cooperative and in no acute distress
hiapainad = he is alert, playful, and in no apparent distress
hibtttorf = he is being taken to the operating room for
hisottwpa = he is stable, oriented times three with proper affect

-sono_io

To filter out the entries with "he is" in Excel:
Click on the column letter of your phrase entries to select the entire column. Then click on Data/Filter/Auto Filter. That will give you a drop-down arrow in the first row of that column. Click on the arrow, and choose "custom." Then, in the Custom AutoFilter box, enter your criteria. For example, you could use "contains" and "he is."

It's a VERY useful feature of Excel! Experiment with it, and you'll be happy you did!


When I open my glossaries in Excel, I only import two columns - short and long forms.
To do this, open Excel, then do a file-open- and choose your glossary text file. Choose "delimited" and then check the "tab" and "other" boxes. In the "other" box, type the right curly bracket "}" and click "next." Then in the data preview window, scroll down until you see your first entry. Mine comes up with three columns, so I just click "do not import" on the first column. Then click "finish" and voila, there is your Excel glossary ready to easily sort/filter/edit!

Hope this info helps someone! I'm a new user of Excel myself, so I'm always learning something new!

-sono_io

Thank you, thank you!!!! As I stated before...y'all are all wonderful. The excel tips are a great help!!! I will definitely play with this some today. I can't work because I have a houseful of loud little boys and a 2 year old, so no trying to listen to mush-mouth docs for me at the moment, might as well work on IT....thanks again!

I can't wait to get to this! Darn work is in the way! I'm sure I'll be ecstatic with Excel once I do something with cool results!

Thank you!

I'm getting ready to play with Excel today. Can I ask one thing?

This is what I'm interested in. I've found that I have too few entries of just simple phrases like: "he has congestive heart failure," or "she has end-stage renal disease." Zillions with history of, but not enough of just plain that. I'd like to do a lot of these for he has, she has, and the patient has. So, should I just make a list of maybe a bunch that say only "has congestive heart failure", import it into Excel, and then take your above suggestion and apply it? Would that work? Or other suggestions.

Thank you!

Harrie,
Since I'm more familiar with Word than Excel, I would use Word for this scenario, but you certainly could do it in Excel - that's the great thing about IT, isn't it?

I would make a list (in Word) of all the conditions:

congestive heart failure
chronic lung disease
renal insufficiency

Then I would copy the list and paste it at the bottom of the first list - this will be your "he has *" section. Highlight this duplicate section and do a find/replace. Replace the paragraph mark "^p" (under special characters) with "^phe has " to change all the entries in that section to "he has ..."

Then copy your original list again and paste it at the bottom, and do the find/replace for "she has" and "the patient has...," "he has a history of...," "with a long history of...," or any others you may want.

The find/replace is SO helpful! You can search on paragraph marks, tab marks, or even white space to make your variations!

Then just import that list into IT, and voila! Let us know how you make out!

HTH,
sono_io

I will, sono, I will! Thanks a lot for the reply! I'll see just how fast this is!

ooohhhh...that's a good idea! Thank you! Boy do I have a lot of work cut out for me. I haven't played with this in days (haven't felt well the past few days so haven't done much), but as soon as I perk up, I am playing with this! Thanks sono...you are a wealth of information!

Oh, wow oh wow. That is absolutely bril! Why have I never done this before! This is definitely worthy of making into an Active Word for me, too. This is great! And you know what else, since these are all generally four word phrases or longer, I'm just going to put in into IT as a text file, without any abbreviations, and let it do it for me.

Thanks, sono.

Oh, you know what else, I'm getting to be a fan now of phrases that end with "and" - because you know how it is, you'll probably hear "the patient has diabetes and .............something else 100 times a day. (and hypertension about 40% of the time, ha)! But anyway, this is a nice way of getting lots in that might have a useful "and" at the end!

Thanks again!

Hey 2busy, feel better soon!