Hi Daniel, In the specific example of 'Married to XX between y and Z, I think I would probaly
Dr Ian McNicoll office +44(0)141 560 4657 fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll Consultant - Ocean Informatics ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Consultant - IRIS GP Accounts Member of BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group ? http://www.phcsg.org 2008/6/18 Thomas Beale <thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com>: > Daniel Karlsson wrote: >> Tom, >> let me rephrase my question a bit: >> is the EVENT classes time attributes used to represent the time of the >> observation or the time (related to?) of the thing observed. In examples >> in the EHR IM I think it is the former and not the latter case, but its >> not all clear to me. >> A third possibility would be to archetype the times. >> > * > The times represent when the observed phenomenon took place, i.e. when > the values were true. This is the 'sample' time, i.e. when the values > were measured. The time the values were decoded, i.e. 'read' may or may > not be the same time. For BP, the sampling is done by the instrument at > the same time (within milliseconds) as the physician reads the values, > due to the nature of the instrument. However, with tissue samples, the > times in the observatons are when the tissue sample was taken, not when > the lab did the analysis (this is recorded in > composition.context,start_time, i.e. in EVENT_CONTEXT - see section > 8.2.3 of > http://www.openehr.org/releases/1.0.1/architecture/rm/ehr_im.pdf). See > http://www.openehr.org/releases/1.0.1/html/architecture/overview/Output/design_of_ehr.html#1154935 > for some details. > > - thomas > > * > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical >
