Hi Chunlan and others,
The limitation is from the underlying information model not the archetype formalism. The archetype formalism is very generic so it can be used to constrain any object model. My thinking was limited to EHR model when I made the statement that guidelines are not best modelled as archetypes. If the underlying model is a good object model for representing guidelines, of course it's possible to model guidelines as archetypes. Back to protocol attribute, quoted from the EHR Information Model, "This may take the form of references to guidelines, including manually followed and executable; knowledge references such as a paper in Medline; clinical reasons within a larger care process ". It seems to be intended as a reference to a guideline instead of the guideline itself fully archetyped in-line. [Chunlan Ma] I don't think my question was clear enough, but thanks that you interpreted it correctly. I understand that most time, protocol is used for recording how an assessment was done. Yeah, my original question should be whether it's possible to use protocol attribute to record local clinical guideline criteria/pathway. The reason why this question came out of my head is that I was concerned about merely a guideline_id is not enough information about how an diagnosis was made for an evaluation. Well, if it can be used as a reference of guideline which would provide more information than a guideline_id. Thanks! Cheers, Chunlan /Rong Cheers, Chunlan Cheers, Rong _______________________________________________ openEHR-clinical mailing list openEHR-clinical at openehr.org http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20071109/b8986fae/attachment.html>
