PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THE LIST ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Grivell" <[email protected]> To: "Thomas Beale" <thomas at deepthought.com.au> Cc: <openehr-technical at openehr.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:23 AM Subject: Re: Data Types
> I agree with both aspects of Thomas's argument. In terms of future > practical "longitudinal" use of the data, the effective > time-precision will be set much more by the month than the day. > However, it's also true that there _may_ be some other > (presently-unimagined) use for the more-precisely defined day - which > argues in favour of it being recorded. > > tony grivell > > > At 19:32 +1000 4/6/02, Thomas Beale wrote: > >[to readers of this list: please remember to cc:all when replying! > >The list policy is not to automatically set reply-to: to the sender > >due to spam and vacation email problems] > > > >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 > > -- > > .......................ooOoo........................... > - > If you have any questions about using this list, > please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
