Dear all I have been thinking about the date/time measurement with regard to interval measurements in the HISTORY class (used in OBSERVATION)
Consider a maximum temperature measured over a 12 hour period - or an average. At the moment the date/time will be the beginning of the 12 hr period. My suggestion is that clinicians will record this at the end of the 12 hours and the date/time should reflect this. That is to say: a 12hr maximum temperature of 36 C over the period 0600-1800 on 2004 Jan 01 should be: 2004 Jan 01 1800 12hr max Temperature = 36 C and not 2004 Jan 01 0600 12hr max Temperature = 36 C One could argue that this is easy to do computationally...I agree. But I argue that the default data should be the most meaningful. Feedback? I would like to put in a Change Request if this is not contentious. Cheers, Sam - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
