Hi, There are two concepts with the name 'age'.
Age as a number. Age=56 Age as a process. baby, youth, post conception, gestational, As with many concepts we have two different concepts with the same name in daily life. Gerard -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, arts Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands +31 252 544896 +31 654 792800 On 26 Jan 2005, at 17:58, Sam Heard wrote: > Tom and others > > The idea of age as a complex notion - post-conception, gestational > (LMP) ie it can involve pre-birth periods - even well into life. This > apperas to be important for decision support. > > I wonder if we need to model this as an archetype for demographics - > but it needs to be in the EHR - age crops up in lots of evaluations > (problem, family history) so we might need to have it as a formal > TYPE! That is - we can use it consistently in various settings. > > > I would argue that gender is of the same nature - with social gender, > physical gender and genetic gender as the key concepts. > > No doubt there are others but these two are worth thinking about > carefully. > > Sam > > - > If you have any questions about using this list, > please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1264 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20050127/df1356f7/attachment.bin>
