Bill Walton wrote: > 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? > > well I assume that EDD and DOB are both recorded. So EDD might be 15 sep 2000 (implying conception on 1/1/2000 - sorry to the obstetricians if I am a bit off here!); DOB might be 1 aug 2000, implying a 6-week premature birth. Then an application Age object could compute or provide: - date_of_birth : Date - estimated_date_of_delivery: Date - estimated_date_of_conception : Date - prematurity: Duration (days/weeks ?) - biological_age: Duration - other special concepts.....
I don;t know what specialists call the last two - I am just inventing here - but presumably there is a concept representing "age of organism since conception". - thomas beale - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
