Handling diagnoses or synonyms by the Diagnosis Editor dialog

If you choose the Diagnosis...from the Admin menu, the Diagnosis Editor dialog will appear. You can register or delete diagnoses and synonyms with the dialog.

Registering diagnoses

To register a diagnosis,

1. Click the Diagnosis button. The New Diagnosis dialog will pop up.
2. Enter a diagnosis and click the Add button.

Deleting diagnoses

To delete a diagnosis,

1. Choose the diagnosis you are going to delete from the Diagnosis list box in the left side of the dialog.
2. Click the Delete button just below the list box.
3. If no synonyms are registered for the diagnosis, the diagnosis will be deleted.
4. If synonyms are registered for the diagnosis, the Confirm dialog will inform you that this action will also delete the synonyms.
5. Clicking the OK button will delete the diagnosis as well as the synonyms.

Registering synonyms

To register a synonym,

1. Choose the diagnosis for which you are going to register a synonym from the Diagnosis list box in the left side of the dialog.
2. Click the Synonym button. The New Synonym dialog will pop up.
3. Enter a synonym and click the Add button.

You can register more than one synonym for a diagnosis. On the contrary, you cannot register a synonym for more than one diagnosis. Therefore, if you are going to register a synonym already registered for another diagnosis, a notice will let you know that the synonym is already registered.

Deleting synonyms

To delete a synonym,

1. Choose the synonym you are going to delete from the Synonym list box in the right side of the dialog.
2. Click the Delete button just below the list box.