USM Bish wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 01:07:06AM +0000, Thomas Beale wrote: > > > > I think it's a given that we assume that "age" is not literally > > recorded in the db - the question is whether date of birth is > > good enough. > > > > If the EHR is designed is to be developed for a 'patient > centric' database where data is appended from the first > registration onwards to ad-infinetum till his/ her death, the > only thing needed is DOB.
It seems to me, although I'm not a physician, that there are, or we might learn that, there are medical problems that crop up later in life that are related to whether or not a person was born full-term or not. If so, or it it's a possibility, then perhaps that needs to be recorded. Is there some sort of problem, either technical or philosophical, with recording both DOB and [estimated] DOC? Best regards, Bill - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
