In een bericht met de datum 27-1-2005 13:39:00 West-Europa (standaardtijd), schrijft sam.heard at bigpond.com:
> So I was wondering if we should model a class specifically for date of > birth.....which handles date of birth and age as a function, and which > takes arguments like date of conception, date of mothers LMP, Expected > Date of Delivery and stores the normal gestational birthdate as well. > The class then has a feature called post-conception age as well. > > The advantage is that we could even deal with things like 'post-natal' > as a function (actual birth to day 28) and other phases in future if > appropriate. It would mean that in family history you could enter 'young > adulthood' as an age which might be better than guessing 22. I know that a lot of this material has already been classified and coded in the international classification for nursing practice of ICN (Geneva). This kind of referring to age and time is quite usual in nursing practice, (after birth, post operative, young), infant) I am now at an airport lounge and have no access to all, but do not start double work on this please..... William -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20050127/afc338f7/attachment.html>
