This is a post we didn't resolve, and I would like to re-address the question. Unfortunately, I cannot resolve either of your links Jim...can you provide new URLs? - thomas
Jim Warren wrote: >Dear Tom et al: > >This is my "de-lurking" for the list. For those of you who dont' know me, I'm >a computing academic whose area of interest will be adequately characterised by >my question... > >I'm trying to represent the structure of "normal" values of fields in >archetypes. I can see that there is of course some provision for a set of >allowed values, a default value and (in quantities) min and max. I want to go >further (because the information could be very useful in the user interface and >to integrate with decision support). > >For instance, I'd like to design fairly specific chronic disease management >archetypes. Without worrying whether it's clinically particularly worthy, take >as a convenient example the hypertension in diabetes algorithms at >http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/diabetes/algorithms/PDFfiles/HYPER.PDF. > >My PhD student, Sistine Barretto, has made a map of the relationship of >concepts from that guideline (see >http://winston.unisa.edu.au/demo/Share/Ontology.doc - and the goal here is not >to get too picky about the use of the term "ontology" either). > >>From this analysis it falls out (unsurprisingly) that there are a set of drugs >(in particular, some drug types as well as a set of generics organised into >types) that are in the scope of compliance with the guideline. There are also >some relevant comorbidities and various other concepts (observations and >actions). > >How can I (should I?) represent the set of likely (in scope) drugs such that, >for example, a user interface could put them as options in a menu? >Furthermore, how can I relate the comorbidities and other indications for the >drugs to the values for a drug name field in a specialised medication >archetype? > >Admittedly, I'm slipping into the realm of decision support, but I think it >really is simply the structure of the domain of normal values in this specific >application. I'd like to use archetypes to represent this, just as a I might >use them to represent the min and max of a given quantity. Is the capability >all there already? If not, what's missing? > >Cheers, >Jim Warren > >Assoc. Prof. Jim Warren >Director, Health Informatics Laboratory >Advanced Computing Research Centre >University of South Australia >- >If you have any questions about using this list, >please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org > > > > -- .............................................................. CTO Ocean Informatics - http://www.OceanInformatics.biz openEHR - http://www.openEHR.org Archetypes - http://www.oceaninformatics.biz/adl.html Community Informatics - http://www.deepthought.com.au/ci/rii/Output/mainTOC.html .............................................................. - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
