I am a primary care pediatrician with thirty years in practice, and now I have realized, if the paramedicals are trained well, they can do many work of the physician. One is collecting data from parents.
Apart from routine questions like " does you child has cold and cough" we encourage parents to ask other questions. One is the head to foot approach: the organs visible are listed from head to foot with mouth as the last as that has many sub headings; there are only four choices: Pain, skin changes like redness or itching, swelling or injury.
The paramedical sitting in the front desk needs to click the option. There are 14 major body areas, with 4 options each and making it 56 choices. We had place the head to foot areas as column and the 4 options as row headings.
Now, after development we think it's a strain for the paramedical.
My question
Till what number we can keep in the row heading? If transposed, there will be 14 columns, but user can quickly go that area once a picture is kept below each item, eye, head etc there will be only 4 rows. In short, what principle should be in row , and which should in a column?