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Update an Intervention Outcome

You can modify all fields for an outcome entered during the current encounter. Since outcomes are encounter specific, you cannot view outcomes entered during previous encounters in the Goals, Interventions and Outcomes panel and therefore cannot modify those outcomes. You can view outcomes from previous encounter in the Care Plan History panel.

  1. From the navigation bar, click Care Plan.
    The Care Plan template appears.
  2. Navigate to the Goals, Interventions and Outcomes panel.
  3. Click the goal for which you what to update an intervention outcome.
    The system populates the fields to the right of the grid with the data from the selected record.
  4. Click the Intervention tab.
    The full Intervention tab appears with the previously entered interventions in the grid.
  5. Select the intervention with an outcome to be updated.
  6. Click the Outcomes tab.
    The full Outcomes tab appears with the data for the selected intervention.
  7. Make any necessary changes to the data fields.
  8. Click Update.
    The system updates the outcome.