On Monday, 12 November 2018 17:06:42 AEDT Jim Birch wrote: > Back to your original question on how long is medical history useful. > > Purpose 1: Short term if you get better, longer as a managed condition. > Purpose 2: Longer term, it allows treatment of the population to be optimised > for the available resources. [...] > Purpose 3: Forever, well, almost. These are actually lifetime longitudinal > studies in large numbers. [...]
They're fine wish-list objectives. But the problem with MHRecord lies in it's unknown objectives, and poor implementation based on what we assume. Longitudinal studies have to be reasonably well-controlled to be reliable, and a collection of random PDFs is unlikely to cut it. That applies to (2) as well, since it's an application of (3) if I read you correctly. David L. _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
