Tom I think work Unit or Work Group is important as long as it is linked to an organisation - a person might work on a ward, an outpatient department and in the cardiology team.
As far as the referral is concerned - it could be to a work unit if that is available and has a system for dealing with referrals. Clearly an institution would limit the parties that will accept referrals. Cheers, Sam > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org > [mailto:owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org]On Behalf Of Thomas Beale > Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 10:34 PM > To: openehr-technical at openehr.org > Subject: Re: Archetype rules (invariants) in openEHR RM? > > > > > Ahmad Risk wrote: > > > > >Please let me enetr this dialogue. In the UK, a GP might refer a > >patient to a named "Cardiologist". However, that referral, upon arrival > >at the hospital, might be handled by the "Cardiology Team" of that > >cardiologist. One might argue here that the 'team' is really a > >department, albeit, a unit within the "Cardiology department". > > > >Equally, the referral from the originating GP could be directed at the > >"cardilogy department" without specifying the named provider. > > > there are two questions here: > > a) who is delivering the care - in this case, it seems to be the team. > b) who is legally responsible for the care, which as far as I know, must > always be an individual, or a registered health care provider. > > Both of these potentially need to be recorded. If we want to identify > teams or departments, we may need a new kind of party, or else we > generalise the notion of ORGANISATION to something like GROUP, where a > group just means more than 1 person with a common purpose - or something > in common - what would it be, in general? > > thoughts? > > - thomas beale > > > - > If you have any questions about using this list, > please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
