Nancy, I wonder if this issue is important past 1-2 months of life. My understanding is that one only needs to correct for premature birth for the first few months. After that, so many other variables come into play that the factor can be ignored. Thus you are putting a great deal of time to handle an issue that might not come up all that often.
But then again, maybe the pediatricians that you are working with will tell you that it IS an important issue. Regarding changing EDC's etc., this is an obstetric issue. I.e. you set an EDC for delivery based on LMP or assumed date of conception. Later an EDC can be changed *IF* the US-based EDC differs enough from an EDC based on LMP (there are rules guiding when to change an EDC based on US findings.) But I thought you were dealing with the *child*. By the time the child is born and discharged from the hospital, there should be a assigned gestational age. A Dubowitz score can also used for determining newborn maturity. So the issue I see you dealing with is how to accurately record the "age" of the child. My recommendation is to have your software record the date of birth, and let physicians put the "fudge factors" into the narrative of their note. If you get too complicated, you lose sight of your goal. That's my 2 cents worth... :-) Kevin --- "Nancy E. Anthracite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working on setting up the things needed for a > Pedi Growth Program. > Children need to have a correction for prematurity > in the first few years, > which uses that EDC (estimated date of confinement) > that I mentioned before. > Now, if the mother gives the registration clerk or > someone else her EDC, that > can be used for the calculation, BUT if at some > point an ultrasound is done > and it is decided that the EDC was not correct, then > the gestational age > would need to be changed. So, that means the > gestational age can usually be > calculated, but on occasion, it will be entered and > not calculated. > > Is there a standard way to handle "overrides", or is > this another case where > just conditional programming will be required, or > should the override just be > granted its own field and the program defaults to > that if it is present. > > Are calculated values usually granted their own > field, or are the generated on > the fly? > -- > Nancy Anthracite > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT > Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. > Start reading now. > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
