Karsten I will have a think about this over the weekend. Regards
richard On Tuesday 21 February 2006 18:51, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > Von: Richard Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > NSW Health supplies us with a chart labelled NSW Immunization Schedule. > > I see. We have that too, but it lists vaccination recommendations per > indication and simply says that we *can* combine shots if desirable. > > > One problem is that what we call schedule (ie pre-defined vaccine > > combination at set months), is different from a recommended schedule > > for say Hepatitis B, as the latter can vary heaps, and according to > > when the patient turns up, or according to say, how soon they are > > leaving for a trip etc. > > Now we are getting somewhere to eventually solve this quagmire. This sounds > like we both agree on the fact that there are > > a) purely medically defined schedules which depend on vaccine suitability > for a given age, minimum interval between vaccinations to ensure proper > buildup of immunity and such > > b) medico-socially recommended schedules as defined by some vaccination > authority/council etc which in turn will depend on suitable vaccine > combinations, subsidies, locale-related incidence, patient ethnicity/age > and such > > What I have modelled in GNUmed so far is a). A frontend *could* support a) > only and still usefully allow vaccination data capture. However, it would > not *maximally* support the clinician which is what Richard, of course, and > rightfully so, desires. Such would need to be stored in b). > > So, let's add a means to the GNUmed schema to aggregate a)-definitions into > b)-schedules for convenience. > > Therefor, back again to the vocabulary issue: > > Would vaccination *regime* be a proper term for a) in analogy to drug > regime ? Or would vaccination "course" better convey the more > medico-technical meaning of a) over b) ? Of course, it'll all be explained > in the > table/column comments but anyhow the name should if possible be a good one. > > Respectively, I would use vaccination *schedule* for b). Or should it > rather be vaccination recommendation ? > > Or even > vaccination_schedule_medical > and > vaccination_schedule_recommended > > ? > > Please advise, > Karsten _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
