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I use Mac Repertory for repertorisation.
I would like to find out statistical and clinical correlations, like
bring up all the patients in which I have used a certain remedy, or a
certain rubric, but this program does not have that possibility.
KHA, the creators of the program, says they do not have an answer.

Does anyone know about a search program that could do this task??

Thanks.

Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".

best bet would be to use a spread sheet program which you can set up
for whatever information you want to categorize. you would be able to
keep a chart of patients with remedies given and any other info you would
want.
then all you need to do is a 'sort' of the columns you want and voila-- all
the cases receiving
a specific remedy will be collated together and you can go back into your
files to do
further analysis

tanya

Yes, that is the future, thank you, but how do I do it to find the
information in the 9 years of use until now?
That is my problem....... and there is too many charts to do it
manually......

Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".

Winchip, which comes with Radar allows the practitioner to extract
information based on a number of criteria or parameters. For example, you
could find every patient in Albany, N.Y. between the ages of 18 and 24 to
whom you have given Calcarea Carbonica.
Dave Hartley
www.Mr-Notebook.com
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Seattle, WA 425.820.7443
Asheville, NC 828.285.0240

Is it possible to purchase it without Radar and adapt it to Mac Rep?

Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".

"Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD." wrote:
Dear Dr. R.,
I have macrep also. Do you have a macintosh? If so, you may be able to use the standard "Sherlock" desktop search function to accomplish this at a kind of basic level (will count number of found files, will not compile stats etc) I have little experience with doing this, but was going to try it sometime (I have system 9.1)--

-Put all the cases into one particular folder, and then put onto a zip disk or smaller hard drive that is connected to computer
-index the zip disk or hard drive (choose File Find, then go to the Find pulldown menu selction and choose "index volumes" (this is probably best done overnight or while away from computer-takes a while) Indexing allows the Sherlock search engine to search the CONTENTS of your files (as like an internet search) instead of just the titles
-When indexed, Choose Find file (and specify the remedy name or abbrev), and Sherlock should find all the files containing that rem or abbrev. It should list # of files found. These files can then be en masse copied (this easily done in the 9.1 version of Sherlock, dont know about earlier) into a new separate folder and labelled. This could be done with all remedies (a bit laborious, and not worth it unless your database is huge, which it may be). Once cases are thus categorized, stat work could be done, albeit somewhat manually.
Thats a cheap and easy idea if you have mac and recent system.

If that too simple, or if have earlier mac, or PC, I would think a call to a software store and some sleuthing around until
someone knowledgeable enough is found should be able to identify an off-the shelf program which could be customized to do the functions you want, including stats.

If that doesnt work, someone will have to write code, which might be really pricey.

Hope this helps.

andy

>Is it possible to purchase it without Radar and adapt it to Mac Rep?

Doubtful.

Do you have any function in MacRep which would export data into a file which
might then be massaged to be useful to another application?

Otherwise, if you could obtain information on the file location & record
structure of the database which MacRep uses to store your files, it might be
possible to extract the data.
Dave Hartley
www.Mr-Notebook.com
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Seattle, WA 425.820.7443
Asheville, NC 828.285.0240

No to both questions...........I guess I will have to annoy the people
at KHA with this Radar feature........

Thanks to everyone who answered.

Dr. J. Rozencwajg, MD, PhD.
"The greatest enemy of any science is a closed mind".