Make a QES files with three fields:
brandname ___________ genername ___________ otherfield _
Make your CHK file: brandname MUSTENTER COMMENT LEGAL brandgeneric.rec SHOW TYPE COMMENT genername END
genername NOENTER END
otherfield MUSTENTER END
In the field "brandname" you refer to another REC file "brandgeneric.rec". This latter REC files has 2 fields:
brand ________ generic ________
and the BRANDGENERIC.CHK file must be:
brand KEY 1 END
generic KEY 2 END
This presumes that you have imported the list of brandnames with the corresponding generic name into the BRANDGENERIC.REC file, e.g.
brand Aspirin generic acetylic salicylic acid brand Beuron generic acetaminophen brand Efferalgan generic acetaminophen brand Panadol generic acetaminophen brand Paralen generic acetaminophen brand Tyelenol generic acetaminophen
If the data entry person starts entering, the list will show as a labelblock and starting writing will go to the brandname, once reached, ENTER suffices, the brandname is entered into the field BRANDNAME and the field GENERNAME is automatically completed.
Hope this helps,
Hans
Just arrived on the list. I am about to construct a questionnaire on Epi-Data. Never worked with = it before, but it seems to be quite straight forward simple, as long as = the requirements are simple
However, for some years ago I was constructing similar questionnaire on = the Paradox DB. It was possible to simplify the type work by cross = tabulating.
e.g. Instead of typing the patients address, telephone number, and so = forth, these data was auto-filled in the database that was linked to = another database with the mentioned informations.
I create a medication questionnaire. As the patients normally knows the = 'trade names', and I am interested in the 'generic names' (as many of = you knows e.g. one of the most used pain killers acetaminophen exists as = multiple brands). I have a database consisting of these two variables.=20
It will be 100.000 times easier for the persons typing the = questionnaires to type one of the brand names of acetaminophen and the = generic name automatically will be filled.
Is it possible to create this lin on the Epi-data??