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Visit types

CareFlow Kids organizes medical encounters into two main visit types.

This distinction keeps the clinical record clear and reflects how pediatric care is typically structured.

Overview

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  PATIENT[Patient]

  PATIENT --> SICK[Sick visit]
  PATIENT --> WELL[Well visit]

Every patient can have multiple visits of both types over time.

Sick visits

A sick visit represents an episode of illness or a medical concern requiring evaluation.

Typical examples include:

  • fever
  • respiratory infection
  • rash
  • abdominal pain
  • injury

Typical content

A sick visit usually includes:

  • history of present illness
  • vital signs
  • physical examination
  • working diagnosis
  • treatment plan or guidance

Clinical goal

The goal of a sick visit is to evaluate and manage an acute problem.

Each sick visit represents a clinical episode.

Well visits

A well visit is a preventive consultation focusing on growth, development, and routine care.

Typical examples include:

  • newborn follow‑up
  • scheduled pediatric checkups
  • vaccination visits
  • developmental evaluations

Typical content

Well visits often include:

  • growth measurements
  • developmental milestone review
  • feeding and nutrition discussion
  • vaccination review
  • anticipatory guidance for parents

Clinical goal

The goal of a well visit is to monitor healthy development and prevent disease.

Relationship with reports

Both visit types can generate reports.

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  VISIT[Visit]
  REPORT[PDF report]

  VISIT --> REPORT

Reports provide a summary of the visit that can be:

  • printed
  • shared
  • archived

The information used to generate reports is stored in the database (db.sqlite), not as static PDF files.

When a user requests a report, the application generates the PDF (or DOCX) on the fly from the structured visit data.

This design keeps the .pemr bundle very lightweight, even for patients with many visits, because the bundle stores only the structured clinical data rather than pre‑generated documents.

Both CareFlow Kids and CareView Family generate reports dynamically from the database when needed.

Visit timeline

Over time, a patient's medical history becomes a sequence of visits.

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  V1[Sick visit]
  V2[Well visit]
  V3[Sick visit]
  V4[Well visit]

  V1 --> V2 --> V3 --> V4

This timeline forms the longitudinal medical record of the patient.

Summary

CareFlow Kids distinguishes two visit types:

  • Sick visits — evaluation and management of acute problems
  • Well visits — preventive care and developmental monitoring

Both contribute to the long‑term medical record and may generate reports that can be shared with families.