Hi Heath, There are many things in the demographic archetypes that we seem to sometimes need in a clinical context. And this seems to be one.
I couldn't find it in any demographic archetype on CKM - do you have one? Regards Heather From: openEHR-clinical [mailto:openehr-clinical-boun...@lists.openehr.org] On Behalf Of Heath Frankel Sent: Tuesday, 5 January 2016 6:37 PM To: For openEHR clinical discussions <openehr-clinical@lists.openehr.org> Subject: RE: Alive vs Dead Heather, The fact that a person is deceased is already represented in demographic archetypes. Regards Heath On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:20 PM -0800, "Heather Leslie" <heather.les...@oceaninformatics.com<mailto:heather.les...@oceaninformatics.com>> wrote: Just talking it through further with Hugh. The notion of a patient being alive is only possible while they are in the room with you. As soon as they walk out the door they could drop dead. So this adds a further complication. From a pure modelling point of view: * the only reliable status is to record if a patient is dead, maybe alongside date of death, cause of death etc - ie the archetype of death that contains clinically relevant data! * for querying - if the patient is not recorded as being known as dead or deceased, then we assume either the patient is still alive or that their status is unknown. I suspect that the reality is that many current systems do have an alive vs dead status of some sort - would anyone like to confirm or deny? Cheers Heather From: openEHR-clinical [mailto:openehr-clinical-boun...@lists.openehr.org] On Behalf Of Heather Leslie Sent: Tuesday, 5 January 2016 5:44 PM To: For openEHR clinical discussions <openehr-clinical@lists.openehr.org<mailto:openehr-clinical@lists.openehr.org>> Subject: Alive vs Dead Hi everyone, Seeking some advice please. In the context of a data registry or research database to record if a person is alive or dead. Maybe there might be an alternative value of 'unsure' or 'indeterminate' as well, I guess. I'm wondering if there is any naming convention for this data element - I've come across 'Alive status' and 'Vital status' by googling and researching all the places I can think of. Surprisingly there seems very little available on the topic. SNOMED CT has alive and dead within the 'General clinical state finding (finding)' hierarchy, although 'deceased' is part of the 'Finding related to general body function (finding)' hierarchy. 'Living status' was proposed on a forum, but seems a bit weird if they are dead. To add to the confusion, the requirements I am modelling uses the name 'Status' (which needs some sort of archetype context) and the values are 'Alive' and 'Deceased' which cross the SNOMED CT hierarchies! We could just be very pragmatic and label the data element 'Alive vs Dead?' Curious problem - I thought there would be more on the internets :). Any wisdom you can share would be most appreciated. And then I guess we need to think of related data elements that might be grouped with this status. Regards Heather Dr Heather Leslie MBBS FRACGP FACHI Consulting Lead, Ocean Informatics<http://www.oceaninformatics.com/> Clinical Programme Lead, openEHR Foundation<http://www.openehr.org/> p: +61 418 966 670 skype: heatherleslie twitter: @omowizard
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