Ed Thanks for that - I think this is the correct approach - recognising that there will be times when a fetal record may be required - such as with antenatal surgery etc.
Any thoughts on the EHR SIG? Cheers, Sam > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org > [mailto:owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org]On Behalf Of William E > Hammond > Sent: Friday, 20 December 2002 11:19 PM > To: Thomas Beale > Cc: Ignacio Valdes; openehr-technical at openehr.org > Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: Subject of care] > > > > We actually dealt with this topic at Duke in the OB system in the early > 1980s. We did create a record. One interesting problem was "ghost" > pregnancies in which it appeared for a period of time to have two fetuses > later to be one. Our actually execution turned out to not create the new > baby record until birth but to back load the data from the mother. This > also solved IDing problems. > > Ed Hammond > > > > - > If you have any questions about using this list, > please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org