On Tuesday 14 December 2004 05:44 pm, Nancy E. Anthracite wrote: > I am not a pediatrician, or even a family practitioner as you > know, but I am being guided by the pediatricians on the HL7 > SIG, and I am not aiming at just the office practice. For > instance, one of the SIG docs should be providing data on > premature infants growth curves, etc., once it is published. > He seems eager to do what he can to help with our project. He > is in informatics and with a medical school. We have some > pretty darn good help! > > According to the people who studied the growth issue and > developed the growth data for the CDC, the correction should > continue until at least age 2, and very low birth weight > infants are not even included in that group. Those infants > curves use other data. Not all of the data which would be > ideal to use will be available to us as "open source", but I > will do the best I can with what I can use.
I wonder whether we can get UN or national data on growth of infants and young children in famine areas and under various disease burdens, and on recovery with proper nutrition and medical treatment. It would be useful for making Dr. Paul Farmer's case (Partners in Health, Haiti) that health care should be regarded as a basic and primary human right. I know that related studies have been done in the past. For example, the famine in the Netherlands, deliberately created by the retreating Germans in WWII, was for decades the best studied example. IIRC, it concluded that up to quite severe starvation levels, the fetus would get adequate nutrition at the expense of the mother. > So yes, for most doing primary care, this is overkill, but I > want to give it a good shot, especially for this particular > component, which is close to the easiest thing of all we have > to deal with. > > And besides, it is the computer that is going to be doing and > plotting all of these nice calculations for us. What is a few > bits and clock cycles between friends? ;-) -- Edward Cherlin, Simputer Evangelist Encore Technologies (S) Pte. Ltd. The Village Information Society http://www.ryze.com/go/Cherlin ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
