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d. Resize your image and then print.
e. The copy button will not very be useful if the list in box (A) is greater than 10. Any patients that
can not be seen in the box (A) will not be “copied”. Additionally, it is at times unpredictable.
Sometimes the whole computer screen is copied. For this reason, the Print button was added.
Using The Binoculars Button
The Binoculars button will help you find a TB patient or a peer educator.
To find a TB patient;
a. Single Click the binoculars button located to the left of the close button as shown in illustration
41 above
b. A window named Find A Patient Using… will open as illustrated below
Illustration 43
c. Once the Find A Patient Using… window has opened, you can start your search using a criteria
of your choice. The most common criteria you will search with are: the patient‟s name, the
patient‟s county TB number, the patient‟s serial number and the date when they were registered
to start treatment. Other search criteria include: County, Payam, Boma and Village. The later
criteria are however not very sensitive.
d. Type in the name of the patient or any other criteria of your choice. As you type the first letter,
the Find A Patient Using… window will enlarge to show you all the matching records (see
illustration 38 above). All other steps described under section 3 How To Update TB Patients’
Data above are also valid for this section.
Using the Colour Button
By default, all patient summaries generated from this TB register are in “black and white”. The Colour
button was added to help you to add a bit of colour to your patient summaries. Once the option to add
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