Hi Thomas, Thomas Beale:
> Bill Walton wrote: > > >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? > > > > > Sam says that rather than estimated DOC, estimated date of delivery > should be actually recorded, since if a DOC is estimated then recorded > and it turns out that e.g. the father was known to still be in Canada > that week on business, it can create all kinds of problems - when the > explanation is probably compltely innocent. So he suggests that > estimated DOC should be always computed from estimated DOD, rather than > being stored. But the result is the same at the application level - a > 0-offset age from the (approximate) moment of conception (for those > patients for whom this is relevant obviously). Please forgive my density ;-) I understand what Sam's saying, but I don't see how that provides the information to which I was referring. Specifically, how would it be recorded that a person was born at something (perhaps significantly) less than full-term? Thanks, Bill - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
