Create new fields on the fly?

[jzwp11]

Yikes! Having that many fields in a table is generally a sign that the table is not normalized which is what I theorized earlier.



I see 4 date fields, if 4 dates are assoicated that describes a one-to-many relationship.


I see you have a couple fields for medications one of which looks like a summary (memo field). If a patient has many medications that is a one-to-many relationship thus a separate but related table.

I also go back to my earlier comments about the various variables; they should be records in a table that are then related to the patient.

I would need to understand what kind of data each field holds in order to sort out the correct table structure...

[whninrome81]

Oh! Sorry - its only one "date" - the others refer to days (of EEG, of the study, etc.) which may or not be sequential depending on the patient. Each EEG has only one actual study date though..for the medications, I could set up a separate table, that is true - for now, I was just leaving it descriptive since I am not planning on analyzing that right now.

[jzwp11]

What about all of the other fields?