Dear all, It is fine for me when we can agree that we mean by 'Age' time after birth.
How will we name and define concepts like: youth, post conception, post gestation, middel aged, elderly? Gerard -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, arts Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands +31 252 544896 +31 654 792800 On 31 Jan 2005, at 19:10, William E Hammond wrote: > For an age, I agree that the date of birth is adequate as long as you > remember people do not age after they die. It is also convenient to > have a > reference time mark for many things, including conception, start of a > course of treatment. Adjectives and nouns are difficult to put into > algorithms unless the definitions are precise. > > Ed Hammond -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 802 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20050131/dfe55f71/attachment.bin>
