Hi Jon, I was not quite sure what you meant here.
Are you talking about using archetypes in the context of guidelines / protocols / pathways to represent 'nominal patient data'? e.g. http://sahib.gim.med.up.pt/index.php/outcomes/papers/91-2012-from-clinical-guideline-to-openehr-converting-jnc7-into-archetypes-and-template-gustavo-bacelar Ian Dr Ian McNicoll mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 office +44 (0)1536 414994 skype: ianmcnicoll email: [email protected] twitter: @ianmcnicoll Co-Chair, openEHR Foundation Management Board Director, freshEHR Clinical Informatics Director, HANDIHealth CIC Hon. Senior Research Associate, CHIME, UCL On 1 June 2015 at 14:37, Jon Tysdahl <[email protected]> wrote: > There are numerous situations in EHR-systems, where a general pattern of > what to do exists, and then is used for a patient in a given situation, > resulting in EHR-records based on this pattern. It is unclear to me to what > extent the archetypes may be used for modelling such patterns, and how to > move from such general patterns to the archetypes containing the real > patient related data. > > > > The following example is meant to illustrate the issue: > > > > Several patients may have the same medical condition and should (according > to clinical guidelines) have care plans that are very similar. The care > plan for each patient may be documented using the Care Plan Archetype. > These care plans all come from a common “care plan” described for the > medical condition in question. If this generic care plan also was described > in the form of archetypes, f.i. using the Care Plan archetype also for > generic patterns, some advantages may appear. > > > > My impression is that use of archetypes for such patterns is not > described, investigated or advocated in the community. I may be wrong > (being a newcomer) or there may be good reasons for this, of which I would > be happy to be informed about. On the other hand, if this is a question > waiting to be addressed, I would like to see the debate around this evolve. > > > > Best regards > > > > Jon Tysdahl > > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org >
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