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Tim Cook wrote: > >DV_PARTIAL_DATE - Purpose: Incorrectly assumes that a 'day' is >unknown with a known or unknown month. >It is very realistic to see a situation in which a person will >recall that something occurred on the 1st of the month 10 years ago >but cannot recall if it was June or July. People relate things in >their life and if an event is recurrent on a specific day of the >month they will recall that though they may have no reference to >which month it was. > yes, we had this debate, and I seem to remember that we thought that a date like 2/?/1993 was artificial in the sense that even if the patient did remember for a fact that it was the 1st or whatever, the date was no better than as if the day was also forgotten - from a mathematical/processing point of view. Personally I'm agnostic on this, and I would lean toward the "faithfulness" requirement of GEHR which would say record it anyway. What do others think? >DV_PARTIAL_TIME - Purpose: Incorrectly assumes that an hour will be >known. Same reasoning as above that a person may not be certain if >an event occurred at half-past 10 or half-past 11. > same argument either way for time I guess. - thomas beale > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
