HOW TO EDIT TOPICS
- Find your list of assigned Topics.
- Go to Editor's Topics on THIS site (pemsoft.com) to find your Topic assignment.
- DO NOT use the Home Page of PEMSoft Online (pemsoft.net) to identify your Topics because many Topics appear in two or more Section lists on the Home Page.
- Open PEMSoft Online. if you have forgotten your editor's login and password to PEMSoft Online then please contact your Editor-in-Chief:
- Navigate to the Topic in PEMSoft Online that you wish to edit.
- Click on the "Print" button at the top right of every Topic.
- This will open a window containing all the content for that Topic including all of the hidden subTopics.
- Select and copy all the content (text) of the Topic from the Print window that just opened.
- Create a blank document in the free text editor that come as apps/programs in Windows (WordPad located in Accessories) and OSX (TextEdit located in the Applications folder).
- Save as plain text to remove all formatting (OSX TextEdit has a "Make Plain Text" option in the "Format" menu)
- Go to "Save As" and save as a Microsoft Word document.
- Open the Topic in Microsoft Word and save the file to a location where you will be able to find it again.
- Activate "Track Changes" in Microsoft Word. This is essential to allow the Editors-in-Chief to easily identify and review the new content.
- Edit the Topic and improve the text (watch the space limits).
- If you need more space, create a new subTopic.
- Add some newer updated references.
- Email the edited Word file to your Editor-in-Chief with tracked changes along with any new jpeg images.
- Your Editor-in-Chief will review and arrange for the edited Topic to be uploaded into PEMSoft Online.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR TEXTUAL CONTENT
The over arching design for the presentation of the textual content is:
- Clean, concise, uncluttered "notation" or bulleted presentations of clinically relevant information
- Essential introductory material displayed in the Main Topic field when the user first opens the Topic
- Additional information related to the current Topic available as a SubTopic or Minor Topic
- SubTopic and Minor Topic buttons ON DISPLAY to prompt the user to avoid "hidden information"
- Simple and intuitive with little or no instruction required for the novice user
Editors will quickly find that the structure described above forces very clear thinking about the components for each Topic as well as restricting the amount of text in the Main Topic Field and SubTopic "pop up" fields. PEMSoft is designed as clinical decision support tool, which means information must be easy to find, clinically accurate, relevant and instantaneously available with minimal potential for misinterpretation or for being missed altogether because it is hidden "off screen".
