I am somewhat confused by the current implementation for archetype slots in the LiU and Ocean editors.
Whilst within SECTION archetypes, the full range of archetype slots can be embedded (OBSERVATION,EVALUATION.ACTION .), within, for example, an EVALUATION archetype the LiU editor supports only simple structural concepts such as list, tree and table whilst the Ocean editor supports only Element or Cluster style archetypes. Are these limitations of the editor implementations or are these restrictions in the underlying model? I have looked at the AOM document but cannot see any such restriction. I have a particular use case where I am trying to replicate our national Laboratory standard messaging structures by specialising the OpenEHR Laboratory archetype. Part of the local requirement is a structure called Evidence which refers to manually-held, non-electronic material relevant to the lab result e.g. a wet film x-ray or paper record. This is potentially a reusable concept and should exist as a separate archetype. I am confused!! I have currently constructed Evidence as an OBSERVATION archetype (It is a simple list of 3 TEXT elements). Would this be better expressed as a CLUSTER? I am still a bit hazy as to when use of cluster archetypes is appropriate. Regards, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll MCMI Tel 0141 560 4657 Fax 0141 282 9705 Mobile 0775 209 7859 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20070325/a571605b/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ openEHR-clinical mailing list openEHR-clinical at openehr.org http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical
