Ian replied much inline with my views. If it is a serious complication, such as pneumonia, it will have its own diagnosis as well, which may even contain a following aetiology statement to point back.
I would not directly embed the notion of a diagnosis in a procedure. Cheers Sam Dr Sam Heard FRACGP, MRCGP, DRCOG, FACHI Chairman, Ocean Informatics Chairman, openEHR Foundation Chairman, NTGPE +61417838808 ________________________________ From: Grahame Grieve<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: ?16/?04/?2013 9:19 PM To: For openEHR clinical discussions<mailto:openehr-clinical at lists.openehr.org> Subject: Re: Complications in an event Hi Sam Procedure does have complications, but it's a simple text / codeableText. We'd rather use Problem/Diagnosis. So the real question is, does the definition of Problem/Diagnosis exclude it's use for for complications of a specific event. Grahame On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Sam Heard <sam.heard at oceaninformatics.com>wrote: > Hi All > > It would be good to include Heather here who has been working on operation > notes. I would have thought that complications within the procedure would > potentially be useful. > > Cheers, Sam > > -----Original Message----- > From: openEHR-clinical [mailto:openehr-clinical-bounces at lists.openehr.org] > On Behalf Of Karsten Hilbert > Sent: Tuesday, 16 April 2013 4:33 PM > To: openehr-clinical at lists.openehr.org > Subject: Re: Complications in an event > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:30:17PM +1000, Grahame Grieve wrote: > > > If you are recording an event - perhaps a procedure - and you have > > complications to record, are these problem/diagnoses? > > That depends on clinical judgment in each case. > > Karsten > -- > GPG key ID E4071346 @ gpg-keyserver.de > E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at lists.openehr.org > > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at lists.openehr.org > > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org > -- ----- http://www.healthintersections.com.au / grahame at healthintersections.com.au/ +61 411 867 065 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20130417/080667f9/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ openEHR-clinical mailing list openEHR-clinical at lists.openehr.org http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org

