Ahmad Risk wrote:
> >Please let me enetr this dialogue. In the UK, a GP might refer a >patient to a named "Cardiologist". However, that referral, upon arrival >at the hospital, might be handled by the "Cardiology Team" of that >cardiologist. One might argue here that the 'team' is really a >department, albeit, a unit within the "Cardiology department". > >Equally, the referral from the originating GP could be directed at the >"cardilogy department" without specifying the named provider. > there are two questions here: a) who is delivering the care - in this case, it seems to be the team. b) who is legally responsible for the care, which as far as I know, must always be an individual, or a registered health care provider. Both of these potentially need to be recorded. If we want to identify teams or departments, we may need a new kind of party, or else we generalise the notion of ORGANISATION to something like GROUP, where a group just means more than 1 person with a common purpose - or something in common - what would it be, in general? thoughts? - thomas beale - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
