samperumal/covid

Simple tool for clinical management and triage of covid patients in South Africa.

CCSSA Triage Guidelines (2 April 2020)

This tool is approved by the Western Cape Department of Health as per circular H110 of 2020, and has been endorsed by the Critical Care Society of South Africa and the Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa.

It is intended solely for the use of qualified doctors who are already familiar with the guidelines, and who need an electronic aid to speed up the calculation of Priority Scores for triage management. This application provides an interactive version of the triage flowchart presented in the WESTERN CAPE CRITICAL CARE TRIAGE TOOL documentation.

Setup

Initialise yarn

yarn

Run local

The following command starts a local dev server on http://localhost:1234, with Parcel building, serving and watching.

yarn dev

Build

Build a static version of the site to the dist/ folder.

yarn build

Test

Run jest test suite

yarn test

Prettier

Run prettier to autoformat all code files changed since the last commit

yarn pretty-quick

This should mostly be unnecessary since the pre-commit hook will take care of any files staged in git on each commit

covid's Issues

Typo in "assessment" in the heading "Sequential organ failure asessment"

Align field labels and inputs

This might be superseded by the suggestion to replace several of the dropdowns with radiobuttons, but if the inputs (and their units) were aligned across sections, the interface would look more uniform and consistent.

PaO2 field needs range checking

Use .number modifier on v-model instances

The .number modifier allows for the attached model to be controlled without an explicit type-cast. This should make the code a bit cleaner and prevent typo errors, when forgetting to cast

FiO2 field needs range checking

Consider not showing a final score until all required fields are populated

The default is "RED", and shown before all fields are filled in. There needs to be more of an indication that the form is incomplete, so that fields aren't missed and incorrect scores read off.

If it should be possible to get a final score without populating every field, it might need to be more obvious which optional fields are not being factored in.

Excluded Flag

Some of the criteria such as Fraility and ECOG actually classify the patient as excluded beyond a certain point - these options are currently filtered out of the selection.

Would it not be better to allow those values in the dropdowns, but then immediately flag the patient as excluded if one of those criteria levels are selected? Perhaps with an Excluded banner at the top of the page

PaO2/FiO2 calculation shows Infinity or NaN

The calculation is initially hidden until both numbers are populated, but once shown remains shown. If FiO2 is 0 or blank, you get a calculation result of "Infinity kPa". If both fields are 0 or blank, you get "NaN kPa".