Thomas Beale wrote: > Tim Churches wrote: > >> Although you would never know it from the web page, by "care type", they >> mean "acute care" versus "rehabilitation" versus "psychiatric". These >> distinctions are purely administrative and have no definitive clinical >> or epidemiological meaning. >> > i.e. more or less "setting"?
No, because a patinet can stay in exactlyteh same bed in teh same hospital and change bewteen an acute care epidsode and a rehab episode. Yes, its completely artifical, but that's how the bean counters count. > in your understanding Tim, does "separation" mean transfer of legal > responsibility for care? Yes. > >> Episodes could be called "funding temporal units". >> >> > is the best way to develop a model for "Episode" in a reference model > like openEHR to start with a model of funding/cost reporting? That would > almost seem to guarantee that a common model of episode is going to be > dificult to find, since such matters are quite dependent on how > healthcare is financed in each country. Yup, just pointing out that openEHr will need to accomodate these national requirements if openEHR repositories are to please the bean counters. Tim C - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
