This can be handled by OIO Andrew will tell you better :) But the Oncological Surgeon im my hospital does this using OIO - a cancer registry. I will tell him to try and write to me and send me the OIO forms he uses, but he is away at the moment.
I too keep records of cancner patients using the forms developed by the UK NHS Oncology Group. OIO allows me to keep complete records of each admission, operation, histology reports in continuity - this is particularly important in bladder cancer patietns in my field of Urological Surgery. Nandalal ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 28 Dec 2003 09:01:50 +1100 To: "openhealth-list @ minoru-development . com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OpenEHR vs. OIO semantics infrastructure, was Re: form-to-formtranslator, was Re: Solving the data type problem, was: ODB vs. RDMBS was:OIO-0.9.1 released > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 05:11, Andrew Ho wrote: > > Yes, OIO forms can be adopted for a national database of clinical > > concepts. For example, the Philippines national cancer registry can create > > a set of OIO forms - each form describes the initial presentation of a > > cancer case at the time of first diagnosis. > > > > In this example, the top level "clinical concept" is "cancer case at the > > time of first diagnosis" - which is modeled via an OIO form. For example, > > the "Prostate Cancer Detected" form, the "Ovarian Cancer Detected" form, > > etc. > > > > Within each OIO form, there will be multiple "concepts" (=Question Items) > > that serve to describe each reported cancer case. > > Cancer registries are something I know a bit about, having worked in one > for a while. So how would OIO handle a cancer registration system? > > The basic model for a population-based cancer registry is as follows: > Each person in the (usually geographically-defined) target population > may have zero or more cases of cancer. A person is defined by their > demographic details, (name, DOB, sex, address etc) and some of these > details may change over time, and these changes need to be recorded. A > case of cancer is distinguished by time of diagnosis, tissue of origin > (topology) and histology (morphology). There are some additional rules > relating to metachronous tumours in paired organs or the same organ > (cancer of the left kidney in 1982, and of the right kidney in 1989, or > multiple colon cancers appearing over tyhe course of a decade). For each > case of cancer, there are zero or more of each of the following: > histology reports, treatments, hospital admissions, and various other > details, and zero or one date and cause of death. > > Andrew, perhaps you could sketch out a word picture of how that would be > handled in OIO, for our education? Or even a rough sketch of an > implementation in OIO? > > -- > > Tim C > > PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere > or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc > Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0 > > << signature.asc >> -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze
