Thanks Ben and Burke, The solution you mentioned of having the value be both a person attribute and an observation sounds exactly like what I want to do.
My ideal implementation is that the user enters it as an observation, and the latest observation is seen as a patient attribute. My only question is how do I get a patient attribute to automatically show the latest obs for a specific concept? Thanks, Joaquín ___________________________________________________________________ Gerente de Desarrollo, eHealth Systems <http://www.ehs.cl/> Research Fellow, Escuela de Medicina de Harvard <http://hms.harvard.edu/> Moderador, GHDOnline.org <http://www.ghdonline.org/> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Burke Mamlin <[email protected]>wrote: > OpenMRS Attributes (like person attributes) are designed to allow > implementations to extend tables to meet their needs – i.e., to effectively > add an a column to the person table. Based on this design, an attribute > should behave as like any other column on the table (gender, birthdate, > etc.). This means that a history of values or multiple values would not be > supported for simple datatypes; rather, you would need a custom datatype. > > If you want to keep longitudinal data (a history of values), then I would > suggest using observations. These don't have to be mutually exclusive – > i.e., you can, for example, record civil status both as a person attribute > *and* and an observation, where the current civil status is always > available as a person attribute and, when you want to see the history, you > can search observations. > > Cheers, > > -Burke > > > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Joaquín Blaya < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I was wondering if there was a history kept of patient attributes >> changes. I looked at the page >> https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Best+Practices+for+Implementations and >> it mentions that some patient attributes such as civil status can change >> over time and an implementer could want to keep a record of that, but it >> doesn't confirm if a record is maintained or not. >> >> It mentions "Is it better to record civil status as a person attribute >> with concept answers" is there anywhere that shows how to do this? Darius >> mentioned that the tribe module allowed you to have a coded patient >> attribute, is that what is done? >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Joaquín >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> Gerente de Desarrollo, eHealth Systems <http://www.ehs.cl/> >> Research Fellow, Escuela de Medicina de Harvard <http://hms.harvard.edu/> >> Moderador, GHDOnline.org <http://www.ghdonline.org/> >> > > ------------------------------ > Click here to > unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l>from > OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-implement-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l]
