Hi Melanie, Interesting questions.
Ocean have been working with NEHTA and the Royal College of Pathologists Australia to develop Cancer Pathology reporting archetypes and templates - you might find it helpful to have a look at these in CKM at www.openehr.org/knowledge. The key aspects of the prostate cancer archetype is at this link -Microscopic findings - Prostate cancer<http://www.openehr.org/knowledge/OKM.html#showArchetype_1013.1.380> If you go to this link then coose the Resource Centre archetype from the toolbar buttons at the top you will be able to have a look at the Operational Templates we have developed. The one which will be of most interest is the RCPA Prostate Cancer (Radical Prostatectomy) Structured Report Demonstrator - click on the View Template button then View Form and you will see a view of the whole report which includes some of the data elements you wish to model, though these have not been done in great detail as yet. Rong Chen has done some work on Chemotherapy Guidelines and used the current INSTRUCTION.medication.v1 archetype see http://www.hst.aau.dk/~ska/MIE2009/papers/MIE2009p0653.pdf My feeling is that this is correct for chemotherapy and probably hormonal therapy (which I assume is still mostly 'prescribable') but I suspect that radiotherapy will require its own archetype, rather than a specialisation of non-drug therapy, as the latter is a bit of a catch-all, whilst radiotherapy is very common and will require specific detail. What do others think? Regards, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst Ocean Informatics openEHR Archetype Editorial Group Member BCS Primary Health Care SG Group www.phcsg.org / BCS Health Scotland 2009/11/10 Melanie Spath <melanie.spath at gmail.com> > Hi, > > I'm trying to archetype patient records in a prostate cancer > environment. I see that there are currently no specific archetypes for > common cancer treatments such as radiotherapy, hormone therapy and > chemotherapy. Could hormone therapy and chemotherapy be described as > specializations of the openEHR-EHR-INSTRUCTION.medication.v1 > archetype? And could radiotherapy be described with a specialization > of openEHR-EHR-INSTRUCTION.non_drug_therapy.v1? Or should these be > described in completely new archetypes (e.g. INSTRUCTION.radiotherapy/ > hormone_therapy/chemotherapy)? > > Thanks for your help, > Melanie Spath. > > PhD Candidate > > Centre for Health Informatics > School of Computer Science & Statistics > Trinity College Dublin > Dublin 2, Ireland > _______________________________________________ > 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/20091110/598ba55f/attachment.html>
