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Wondering if there's a sensible naming convention to follow? What do other's think? Thanks.

All of these buttons appear in an EPR (Electronic Patient Record) application which is being reworked.

Something about the button naming bothers me and I'm struggling to come up with a suitable consistent naming convention across all buttons to propose as an improvement. The organisation doesn't really propose much around naming guidelines, so no help there.

I'm trying to get better consistency across field and CTA button naming where possible as 20 years of historic ad-hoc development has left it a bit messy. I feel that there is a mixture of "View or edit", "Add or complete" or with the triage one it would be "Do the triage process" (which can't later be edited.)

All the buttons open modals that allow viewing or editing further information that is collected via the app and I'll add a brief description for each button below:

  • See full injury details: Opens a modal that allows view/edit of all ECDS (Emergency Care Dataset) items relating to injury (about 15 items).
  • Add or view legal status: Opens a modal that allows view/edit of UK's Mental Health Act detention reasons (of which zero or many may apply) for that person to be held under the act (if applicable).
  • Open Manchester Triage: Opens a modal that allows view/edit of the triaging tool's questions; i.e. small set of questions that aids patient flow/allocation. However once saved it can't be re-edited.
  • Add handover: Opens a modal that allows a handover action to take place. i.e. One doctor going off-shift is replaced by another coming on-shift. Replaces the current doctor. Does not have an undo but no reason the previous doctor couldn't be replaced again if they came back on-shift later.
  • Add review: Opens a modal that allows a review request action to take place. i.e. a request for a specialist or consultant to review the current patient. Zero or many. Can't remove a review, but can answer it as actioned (though no reason that the action was 'do nothing')
  • ... (Three dots): Opens a modal that allows view/edit of the adjacent text box. The 3 dots is used on things like a 'Glasgow Coma Score' where the text would show 'E1V1M1' but this is made up of 3 options/inputs shown in the modal (so it's a calculation that would need various fields inputting to produce a 1-line answer). The 3 dots button is used on various calculations of this nature.
  • Comorbidities: Opens a modal that allows view/edit of the patient's comorbidities (of which zero or many may apply). Though comorbidities are lifelong conditions so I'm not sure "edit" should apply here, though "add" would be valid.

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  • For legal status and review, consider changing the button text depending on whether you can still add one or there already is something to view/edit Commented 11 mins ago

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I don't think it's possible to give a reliable answer given how specific this is. But based on the question, it might be important to start with the bare minimum of information and look for solutions from there. To summarize the question: there are six pop-ups to a modal window and only one edit. This is already enough information to start with.

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From here, with the button text reduced to the bare minimum, an icon is always a great visual aid. This is up to the designer. One advantage to consider is that none of the options repeat the initial: ELTRHIC could be a good title for this app section.

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Personally, I would look for icons, but that's another task.

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    I was going to say almost the same thing. Remove the verbs to begin with and shorten names, so they are memorable. +1 Commented 5 hours ago

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