Description of Health Service Encounter

(Author: Brent Jones – April 11^th, 2005)

Chlamydia notification (2.1.2)

Storyboard: Sexually Transmitted Infection (2.1)

Hannah Lambert, 16, recently saw a family doctor at a walk-in clinic for a Pap test and swabs for Chlamydia and gonorrhoea. The samples were all forwarded to the lab.

The Lab Clinician processes the swabs and obtains the results. The gonorrhoea swab is negative but the Chlamydia is positive. The technician records the result in the lab system.

Assumption

• Recording the lab result triggers a notification to the ordering physician that the result is available
• Recording the positive Chlamydia result also sends a notification to Public Health

Health Service

This health service follows upon the infection diagnosis (see 2.1.1) and describes all the health service events taken during a laboratory analysis with notifications to the ordering physician and Public Health.

Each health service event takes place during a same period of time (e.g. without cut of time), in presence or not of involved client; the health service events can be grouped in a health service encounter.

Get SVG Format